PHOTO OF THE DAY May 12, 2005  

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Where Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska
When 1969
Photographer Winfield Parks

"Sheer 100-foot (30-meter) cliffs of eroded ash, sliced by the Ukak River, rise before Mount Katolinat in Katmai. A nearby eruption in 1912 covered the area with up to 700 feet (215 meters) of volcanic debris."

—From the National Geographic book Alaska, 1969


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