Amukta
Facts
- Official Name: Amukta Island
- Seismically Monitored: No
- Color Code: UNASSIGNED
- Alert Level: UNASSIGNED
- Elevation: 1066m (3497ft)
- Latitude: 52.49419
- Longitude: -171.25476
- Smithsonian VNum: 311190
- Pronunciation:
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Nearby Towns:
- Nikolski 105 mi (168 km) NE
- Atka 126 mi (203 km) SW
- Unalaska 217 mi (350 km) NE
- Adak 232 mi (373 km) SW
- Akutan 253 mi (407 km) NE
Distance from Anchorage: 999 mi (1608 km)
Description
From Miller and others (1998) [1] : "The undissected stratovolcano of Amukta volcano composes most of nearly circular, 7.7-km-wide Amukta Island. The cone, about 5.8 km in basal diameter and topped by a 0.4 km wide summit crater, appears on synthetic-aperture radar imagery to be built on a 300+ meter high, east-west trending arcuate ridge. Extensions of that ridge on the southwest and east sides of the island indicate an older caldera approximately 6 km in diameter and open to the sea on the south side. No hot springs or fumaroles have been reported from Amukta. Sekora (1973, p. 29) [2] reports the presence of a cinder cone near the northeastern shore of the island."Name Origin
"Amukta volcano" is an informal name given to the peak on Amukta Island. The name Amukta (referring to the island) was reported in 1768 by Captain Lt. P.K. Krenitzin and Lt. M. Levashev (Orth, 1971).
References Cited
[1] Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska, 1998
Miller, T. P., McGimsey, R. G., Richter, D. H., Riehle, J. R., Nye, C. J., Yount, M. E., and Dumoulin, J. A., 1998, Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0582, 104 p.
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