Ten Thousand Smokes, Valley of (Alaska)
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Name (Hebrew)
עמק עשרת אלפי תימרות העשן (אלסקה)
Name (Latin)
Ten Thousand Smokes, Valley of (Alaska)
Other forms of name
10,000 Smokes, Valley of (Alaska)
Valley of 10,000 Smokes (Alaska)
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (Alaska)
Coordinates
-155.3852778 -155.3852778 58.39388889 58.39388889 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Valleys Alaska
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q259233
Library of congress:
sh 97000405
Sources of Information
- Griggs, R.F. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 1922.
- GNIS, 7 Jan. 1997(Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska, 58⁰23ʹ38ʺN, 155⁰23ʹ07ʺW)
- Web. geog.(Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, volcanic region, SW Alaska, in Katmai National Monument W of Mt. Katmai; formed at the eruption of Katmai in June 1912 when the valley--17 m. long by 4 m. wide--was covered by a flow of incandescent sand; later (1915), when discovered by an expedition of the National Geographic Society, its floor was found to have not 10,000, but actually millions of steam jets, large and small (largest 150 ft. in diameter), some of which had a temperature as high as 1200⁰F.)
- LC database, 9 Jan. 1997(hdg.: Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes)