Mount Emmons (Alaska)


Mount Emmons is a post-caldera stratovolcano within the Emmons Lake caldera on the Alaska Peninsula within the Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States.

Description

The summit is one of three cones constructed within the caldera, which also contains an elongated crater lake on its southwest side.
The most recent of several caldera-forming eruptions at Emmons Lake occurred more than 10,000 years ago. No historical eruptions have occurred at Emmons Lake.
The peak is located within the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge.
Mount Emmons is a local name published on a USGS map in 1943.