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Although snow covers Crater Lake National Park for eight months of the year (average annual snowfall is 463 inches (1,180 cm)), the lake rarely freezes over due, in part, to a relatively mild onshore flow from the Pacific Ocean. The last recorded year in which the lake froze over was in 1949, a very long, cold winter.
Crater Lake (Klamath: Giiwas) [2] ... roughly 7,700 years ago. [11] Crater Lake remains ... the geology at the bottom of the lake, [35] and inspect moss samples found ...
Crater Lake lies inside a caldera created 7,700 years ago when the 12,000 feet (3,658 m) high Mount Mazama collapsed following a large volcanic eruption. Over the following millennium, the caldera was filled with rain water forming today's lake. [4] The Klamath Indians revered Crater Lake for its deep blue waters. In 1853, three gold miners ...
On June 12, 1853, John Wesley Hillman was reportedly the first European American to see what he named "Deep Blue Lake" in Oregon. The lake was subsequently renamed Crater Lake. [ 1 ] Hillman shattered a knee in 1855 during the Rogue River Wars and returned east a few years later, settling to a farming life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .
Oregon's Crater Lake is the deepest lake in America and has crystal-clear waters. But it didn’t used to be a lake at all. This gorgeous lake was once a mountain.
William Gladstone Steel (September 7, 1854 – October 21, 1934) was an American journalist who was known for campaigning for 17 years for the United States Congress to designate Crater Lake as a National Park.
Joseph S. Diller published the first geology of Crater Lake in 1902, the same year the area became a national park. In his work, Diller briefly describes a great stump he had found in the lake six years earlier, in a report dated 1896. [1] [3] Preliminary carbon dating of the stump has suggested that the tree itself is at least 450 years old. [4]
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