Word: aniakchak
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif., last fortnight told newsmen and geologists he had discovered that the Aniakchak and Veniaminoff, Alaskan peaks thought to be extinct, are alive. If so, they are the largest active craters in the world...
Last summer Father Hubbard. as he had done for three years prior, took four football players into Alaska for a long geological walk to the end of the Aleutian Islands. Their jaunt took them into the hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched their tents, found in their subsequent explorations great spurts of steam issuing from cracks in the craters' icy floors. They put a pot of beans over one of the steam streams, baked them for dinner. Another characteristic of the region which made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava...
...Aniakchak and Veniaminoff were discovered seven years ago by R. Harvey Sargent, for 21 years head of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Sargent's party only had time to measure around the great crater holes, found the rim circumference of Aniakchak to be 21 mi., of Veniaminoff, 20 mi.* They found no trace of activity in their hasty circumspection, pronounced the craters big but dead...