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Devil Mountain Lakes, known in Inupiaq as Qitiqłiik, is a large crater lake in western Alaska within Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and is widely regarded as the world’s largest maar. About 8 kilometers across, it consists of two connected craters, North Devil Mountain Lake and South Devil Mountain Lake, and is part of the Espenberg volcanic field, whose nearby crater lakes are sometimes grouped as the Espenberg Maars. Formed around 21,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Ice Age, the crater resulted from lava interacting with permafrost and causing violent underground explosions. Its unusual Arctic scale and volcanic origin make it an important landform.
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