- Yunaska Island
Location map
Alaska
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caption=Location in AlaskaYunaska (Yunax̂sxa [Bergsland, K "Aleut Dictionary" Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, 1994] in Aleut) is the largest of the
Islands of Four Mountains group in theAleutian Islands of southwesternAlaska ,United States . It has a land area of 173.099 km² (66.834 sq mi) and no population at the 2000 census.The island comprises two volcanic mountains, with a valley between. The western mountain is composed of four overlapping and eroded stratovolcanoes, with a cinder cone field at the western end. It has not been historically active. The eastern mountain is a large shield volcano with two overlapping summit calderas, which last erupted in 1937.
References
* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-tree_id=4001&-transpose=N&-redoLog=false&-all_geo_types=N&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=100$10000US020160001001081&-search_results=100$10000US021500001002007&-format=&-_lang=en&-show_geoid=Y Yunaska Island: Block 1081, Census Tract 1, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska] United States Census Bureau
* [http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcinfo.php?volcname=Yunaska Yunaska description and statistics] , Alaskan Volcano Observatory.
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