Makushin Volcano

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|- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Coordinates: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | [53°53′11″N, 155°55′51″W]Coordinates: |-

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|- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Type: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | Stratovolcano |- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Age of rock: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | |- | style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85 | Last eruption: | style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220 | 1995 |-

|} Makushin Volcano (also known as Mount Makushin) is a stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Makushin is a Russian name, probably derived from the Russian makushka, meaning "the crown (of the head)" or "top," and applied to this feature because it is the highest point on Unalaska Island. The volcano was called "Ognedyshushchaya Gora" meaning "burning mountain" by Sarichev on a 1792 map.

Map showing volcanoes of Alaska. The mark is set at the location of Mount Makushin.

Sources

• Siebert, L. and T. Simkin (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3. URL: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/
• [Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs]

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