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Since 2002, one of Oregon's regular-issue license-plate design has featured Crater Lake [7] and a one-time plate surcharge is used to support the operation of Crater Lake National Park. [8] The commemorative Oregon State Quarter , which was released by the United States Mint in 2005, features an image of Crater Lake on its reverse.
Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh-deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately 3,000-foot (910 m) depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m) of ice, and the recent report of a 2,740-foot (840 m) maximum depth for Lake O'Higgins/San Martin ...
There are plenty of stunning lakes across America, but none like you’ll find at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.. Its namesake lake is the deepest in the country, with an average depth of ...
The Old Man of the Lake in 2013. The Old Man of the Lake is a 30-foot (9 m) tall tree stump, most likely a hemlock, that has been bobbing vertically in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896. The stump is about 2 feet (61 cm) in diameter at the waterline and stands approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) above the water.
Crater Lake — a volcanic caldera lake within Crater Lake National Park, in southern Oregon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crater Lake . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Construction of the observation station began in the fall of 1930. During construction, Sager spent hours in a rowboat on the lake, ensuring the building blended perfectly into the caldera cliff. As a result, the building provides a spectacular view of Crater Lake and surrounding caldera and mountains, but is virtually invisible from the lake ...
Mount Scott is a small stratovolcano and a so-called parasitic cone on the southeast flank of Crater Lake in southern Oregon. [4] [5] It is approximately 420,000 years old. [3] Its summit is the highest point within Crater Lake National Park, and the tenth highest peak in the Oregon Cascades. [6]
View of Crater Lake from the air. First of all, it certainly needs a new file name, but apart from that, here's a great aerial shot of Crater Lake in Oregon (it's used in the article). Taken by Semionk. It's sharp, has good color balance.