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Aniakchak

British  
/ ˌænɪˈæktʃæk /

noun

  1. an active volcanic crater in SW Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: the largest explosion crater in the world. Height: 1347 m (4420 ft). Diameter: 9 km (6 miles)

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Nicknamed “the cradle of storms,” Aniakchak Bay offers something new to Fiorillo on each visit.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022

Fiorillo, the executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, has spent 10 field seasons at Aniakchak.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022

Just 19 people stopped by Aniakchak last year, which makes the runner-up, Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial in California — visitors: 533 — a logjam of humanity by comparison.

From New York Times • May 16, 2013

Aniakchak lies 350 miles southwest of Anchorage at the base of the Aleutian Islands, that frozen tail of North America that wags at Kamchatka.

From New York Times • May 16, 2013

Aniakchak and Veniaminoff were discovered seven years ago by R. Harvey Sargent, for 21 years head of the U. S. Geological Survey.

From Time Magazine Archive

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