Trident Volcano Katmai National Park Alaska

Blanketed with snow on a summer day, Trident Volcano in Katmai National Park in Alaska, USA is one of the active volcanoes in the Aletian Chain.

Trident Volcano glistens under the sunny summer skies in Katmai National Park in Alaska, the ideal day to capture some aerial pictures of the area. This volcano is classified as a stratovolcano and is still a very active one which last erupted in January of 1975.

Prior to this, there were eruptions from Trident in 1953, 1960 and a small rumbling in 1968. There are nearly 24 lava domes atop Trident volcano, a name which came from the three adjoining volcanic rock cones which were important landmarks before the eruption in 1953.

An aerial view of the Valley of 10000 Smokes formed by the 1912 eruption of Novarupta and Trident Volcano one of the active volcanoes in the Aletian Chain

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Blanketed with snow on a summer day, Trident Volcano in Katmai National Park in Alaska, USA is one of the active volcanoes in the Aletian Chain.