Mount Martin (Alaska)

Crater of Mount Martin, June 1990

The Mount Martin is a 1863 m high stratovolcano of the Aleutian Island chain on the Alaska Peninsula. It belongs to the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

Although the eruption is the 1953 dispute and also other reports of historical eruptions are missing, yet sulphurous volcanic exhalations in the form of fumaroles can be found today. The edge of the 300 m wide crater of Mount Martin slumped in the southeast. Due to the geothermal activity of the crater is not all year round from ice and snow. Here, in the meantime formed always an acidic crater lake.

The volcano was named after George C. Martin, 1912, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes visited first after the eruption of the Novarupta.