Word: katmai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seaplane landed on the lake inside the crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi. with only frozen beans for food. He was the first man to reach the top of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, the first to make a winter ascent of towering Katmai. "Gosh," he once chuckled to a newshawk, "all the rest of these exploring babies are glad enough if they make one 'first,' and here I am with three...
Dwindling 10,000. Like the anabasis of Xenophon's 10,000 Greek mercenaries (hired by Persia's Cyrus II to fight his brother Artaxerxes), Alaska's famed Valley of 10,000 Smokes (created by Mt. Katmai blowing off its top) has dwindled to about 100 steaming earth vents.? Robert Fiske Griggs (George Washington...
...Next largest active volcanoes: Alaska's Katmai, 8.4 mi.; Hawaii's Kilauea, 8 mi. Vesuvius measures about one mile...