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Katmai National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park in southern Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears.
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Places in the Bush include Bethel, Dillingham, King Salmon, Nome, Barrow, Katmai National Park, Kodiak Island, Kotzebue, and Unalaska-Dutch Harbor.
" And in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Katmai National Monument in Alaska, comprising more than a million acres ( 4, 000 km² ).
added Ellis Island to Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and Jimmy Carter made major additions to Glacier Bay and Katmai National Monuments in 1978.
The range is almost entirely roadless wilderness, and Katmai National Park and Preserve, a large national park within the range, must be reached by boat or plane.
Novarupta, meaning " new eruption ", is a new volcano that was created in 1912 and located on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about southwest of Anchorage.
Established as a National Park & Preserve in 1980, Katmai is located on the Alaska Peninsula, across from Kodiak Island, with headquarters in nearby King Salmon, about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a valley within Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska which is filled with ash flow from the eruption of Novarupta on June 6 – 8, 1912.
Mount Katmai is a large stratovolcano ( composite volcano ) on the Alaska Peninsula in southern Alaska, located within Katmai National Park and Preserve.
Geologic map of the Katmai Volcanic Cluster, Katmai National Park, Alaska Investigations Series Map I-2778.
Within the and Wildlife Refuges, including the Katmai National Park and Preserve, the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve and the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, and the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
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Visitors to the valley most commonly arrive via bus along the road from Brooks Camp, which is the only road in Katmai Park.
As a result, bears in Katmai Park are uniquely unafraid of and uninterested in humans, and will allow people to approach ( and photograph ) much more closely than bears elsewhere.
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The number of commercial lodges, hunting-and fishing-resorts and visitors to the nearby Katmai National Park and Preserve has grown exponentially in recent years.
All of these communities are primarily inhabited by Alaska Natives, except for Dillingham, Alaska and King Salmon, Alaska ; the former being influenced early-on by white salmon-cannery employees of European descent and the latter being heavily populated by military personnel stationed, primarily during Cold War years, at the nearby King Salmon Air Force Station and later by visitors and employees of the nearby Katmai National Park and Preserve.
It begins as the outflow of Kukaklek Lake in Katmai National Park and Preserve and meets the sea at Bristol Bay.
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When equipped with a 1MB L3 cache ( on the motherboard ) the 400 and 450 MHz K6-IIIs is claimed by Ars Technica to often outperform the hugely higher-priced Pentium III " Katmai " 450-and 500-MHz models, respectively.
The saltwater coast of the area is the eponym for Katmai Bay ( CGC 101 ), a United States Coast Guard cutter tugboat icebreaker.
Mount Katmai is one of five vents encircling the Novarupta volcano, source of the VEI 6 eruption and associated voluminous pyroclastic flows in 1912.
Katmai volcano is built on the sedimentary rocks of the Naknek Formation of Late Jurassic age, which are exposed just west of the caldera rim at an elevation of about, as well as north and southeast of the crater.
Following the subsidence, a small dacitic lava dome known as Horseshoe Island was emplaced on the floor of the caldera ; this is the only juvenile material erupted from Katmai caldera during the historical eruption.
River Lethe is located 18 km ( 12 mi ) west of Mount Katmai, Alaska Peninsula, and is the middle branch of the Ukak River.
Mount Kaguyak is a stratovolcano located in the northeastern part of the Katmai National Park in Alaska.
Mount Griggs, formerly known as Knife Peak Volcano, is a stratovolcano, which lies 10 km behind the volcanic arc defined by other Katmai group volcanoes.
The only effective way to patrol all of Katmai National Park is by airplane which is the method used by authorities.
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