Mount Veniaminof (Russian: Вулкан Вениаминова) is an active stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula. The mountain was named after Ioann (Ivan Popov) Veniaminov (1797–1879), a Russian Orthodox missionary priest (and later a prominent bishop in Russia) whose writings on the Aleut language and ethnology are still standard references.

Jul 9, 2021 · From Miller and others (1998): "Mount Veniaminof is a broad central mountain, 35 km wide at the base, truncated by a spectacular steep-walled summit caldera 8x11 km in diameter. The caldera is filled by an ice field that ranges in elevation from approximately 1750 to 2000 m; ice obscures the south rim of the caldera and covers 220 square km of ...

Oct 23, 2021 · An active volcano of great mass, Mount Veniaminof contains a cupped ice field of 25 square miles, the most extensive crater-glacier in the nation. The caldera originated when the former summit collapsed. It is the only known glacier …

Veniaminof, located on the Alaskan Peninsula, is truncated by a steep-walled, 8 x 11 km, glacier-filled caldera that formed around 3,700 years ago. There have been 14 eruptions over the past 38 years.

Aug 28, 2011 · Veniaminof is a large stratovolcano that suffered a huge caldera -forming eruption about 3,700 years ago. The caldera is almost 6 miles (10 km) across and filled with ice and snow. All the recent eruptions have taken place from a cinder …

Dec 9, 2021 · Veniaminof is one of the highest, largest and most active volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula. The massive cone of the stratovolcano is truncated by a steep-walled, 8 x 11 km, glacier-filled caldera that formed around 3700 years ago.

Veniaminof, Alaska, USA: Facts | Story | Feature | Questions . Location: Alaska, USA Latitude and Longitude: 56°10'N, 159°23'W Elevation: 2,507 m, (8,273 ft) Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Earliest Eruption: 3700 BP Oldest Historic Eruption: 1830 Most Recent Eruption: 1993 Number of Eruptions in 20th Century: 9 Largest Eruptions: 3700 BP, VEI ...

Aug 1, 2022 · The 2018 eruption of Mount Veniaminof occurred from September 3–4 to December 27, lasting about 114 days. This report summarizes the types of volcanic unrest that accompanied the eruption and provides a chronology of events and observations.

Oct 17, 2013 · Mount Veniaminof, located on the Alaska Peninsula, has a large glacier-filled summit caldera that formed around 3,700 years ago. A cone within the crater has been the source of at least 13 eruptions in the last 200 years that included intermittent steam and ash emissions, incandescent lava flows, and Strombolian activity.

Veniaminof is one of the most voluminous and most active volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula. Photo by U.S. Geological Survey, 1984. Veniaminof is a large stratovolcano that suffered a huge caldera -forming eruption about 3,700 years ago.