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New Underwater Volcano

Posted by michael on from the land-rush dept.

fuqqer writes "CNN has a story about a new volcano just a few hundred feet below the ocean's surface. It is just off of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer! Here's a cool link to the Alaska Volcano Observatory with satellite pictures of Alaska Volcanos. Here's a link to the NOAA's underwater features site."

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  1. And Geography 101 by core+plexus · · Score: 2, Informative
    I live in central Alaska, and it's about 800 miles from my house to the coast of Russia. Maybe you'd like to walk, but I sure wouldn't. You might want to come up here sometime and try a short walk first, say Fairbanks to Deadhorse via the Dalton Highway.

    A road is being started that will go from Fairbanks and follow the Yukon River, eventually ending in Nome. Until then, you'd have to follow the Iditarod Trail, and cross several major rivers. Best time to walk that trail is the winter.

    -cp-