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Mount Emmons is a dormant stratovolcano and mountain peak on the Alaska Peninsula, located within the Emmons Lake caldera in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge. It is a post-caldera cone formed after the larger caldera already existed, and its summit is one of three cones built within that broad volcanic depression, which spans about seven by eleven miles. The caldera also holds an elongated crater lake along its southwest side. The latest caldera-forming eruption occurred more than ten thousand years ago, with no historical eruptions known. Its locally used name appeared on a U.S. Geological Survey map in 1943.
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King Cove, Alaska · United States