Mount Okmok
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Mount Okmok rises to 1,053 m in Alaska. Jag Peak stands 964 m to the south-southwest, 6.0 miles off. 7 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.
The story
Mount Okmok is a volcano on eastern Umnak Island, in the central-eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Part of the Aleutian Volcanic Arc, it was formed by the subduction of the oceanic Pacific Plate under the North American Plate. Okmok is a large shield volcano capped by a 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) wide caldera. The caldera contains numerous cinder cones, their lava flows, and a few lakes. Okmok erupts mainly basaltic lava, mostly from the cones within the caldera. Activity began in the Pleistocene. Two large caldera-forming eruptions took place during the Holocene, with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 6; the second of these occurred in 43 BCE and caused a volcanic winter that might have changed the history of Egypt. After this second caldera-forming eruption a crater lake formed in the caldera, and drained in one of the largest known floods of the Holocene. Okmok is one of the most active volcanoes of North America; numerous eruptions have produced lava flows within the caldera, and the 1817 eruption destroyed an Aleut village. The last eruption was in 2008 and produced several new vents in the caldera. This eruption, which occurred with little forewarning, yielded a volcanic cloud that produced volcanic ash fall around Okmok. The volcano is monitored by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO).
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Wikidata Q1790072, linked from the OpenStreetMap record's article tag.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1053 m
How to reach it
7 named places within 25 miles
- Jag Peak: 6.0 mi
- Tulik Volcano: 8.3 mi
- Mount Idak: 11.8 mi
- Konets Head: 18.2 mi
- Lone Peak: 20.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Okmok. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jag Peak | SSW 202° | 964 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Idak | E 90° | 581 m | 11.8 mi |
| Lone Peak | ESE 120° | 538 m | 20.1 mi |
| Konets Head | SE 128° | 120 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 09:16 | 20:40 | 21:26 |
| June solstice | 06:44 | 22:48 | 23:46 |
| September equinox | 09:00 | 20:27 | 21:13 |
| December solstice | 10:28 | 16:48 | 17:56 |
Local time (America/Nome).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaOpenStreetMap element node/976817325
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