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Katmai

Mount. a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq. km (4215 sq. miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft.). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft.). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)

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Katmai

an active volcano in Alaska, in the northern Aleutian Range; elevation, 2, 047 m.

One of Katmai’s most violent eruptions occurred on June 6, 1912, and a caldera with a lake with a diameter of 1.5 km and a depth of approximately 1, 200 m was formed at the site of thecrater. The lower slopes of Katmai are covered with coniferousforests. The upper slopes are covered with mountain tundra.There are glaciers on the northeast slope.

Katmai

The code name for the Pentium III. See Pentium III.

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"The reality is, unless we got all the bears to line up into a single file line on the same day, we're not going to have the exact same photos," said Andrew LaValle, a park ranger at Katmai who runs the contest.

America's fattest bear has now been crowned

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Recent records of Lynx on the Alaska Peninsula

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Since they were established in 2012, Katmai's five live-streaming webcams have exploded in popularity, attracting observers from every state and almost every country.

Bearing witness: Bearcams in Katmai National Park and Preserve are capturing impressive scenes from the wild--and changing the nature of park visitation

(NYSE: NBL), an independent energy company, has reported final well results at the Katmai exploration well and the Dantzler appraisal well in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico.

Noble Energy reports final well results at Katmai exploration well and Dantzler appraisal well in deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Katmai napped inside the raft that we had suspended on those sticks, seemingly impervious to the jostling that set Hig grunting and grumbling with every step.

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Heading the ten entries in Division B, Wayne Eatson's Katmai Express got the better of Humphrey Sherratt and Elysium.

Action on the bay: a man overboard, capsizes and ripped sails--the bay of Islands Sailing Week certainly had plenty of hair-raising moments

Lifting Leupold's Katmai 6x32 binocular to my eyes last season in a treestand in Illinois was like taking a time-machine trip back into the good old days.

Bright ideas: in choosing a treestand binocular, less is more

Henry Blake III, a Worcester native, ordered the 10 other crew members to abandon ship just before the Katmai sank early last Wednesday morning about 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Captain tells of icy sinking; Worcester native's vessel lost off Alaska in storm

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