Mount Veniaminof

Mount Veniaminof
Steam rising from the intracaldera cinder cone at Veniaminof volcano in the waning stages of the 1983 to 1984 eruption.
Elevation	8,225 feet (2,507 m)
Location	Alaska, USA
Range	Aleutian Range
Prominence	8,199 ft (2,499 m)[1]
Coordinates	56°11′53″N, 159°23′27″W
Topo map	USGS Chignik A-5
Type	Stratovolcano with a summit caldera
Last eruption	2006

Mount Veniaminof is an active stratovolcano located on the Alaska Peninsula. The Alaska Volcano Observatory currently rates Veniaminof as Aviation Color Code Green and Volcano Alert Level Normal. The mountain was named after Ioann (Ivan Popov) Veniaminov (1797-1879), a Russian Orthodox missionary priest whose writings on the Aleut language and ethnology are still standard references.

The volcano was the site of a colossal (VEI 6) eruption around 1750 BC. This eruption left a large caldera. In modern times the volcano has had numerous small eruptions (over ten of them since 1930); these are located at a cinder cone in the middle of the caldera.

Veniaminof has one of the highest elevations of Alaskan volcanoes. Partly for this reason, it is covered by a glacier that fills most of the caldera. Because of the glacier and the caldera walls, there is the possibility for a major flood from a glacier run at some point in the future.

Map showing volcanoes of Alaska Peninsula.

Sources

• Global Volcanism Program entry
• Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs

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