The 800-m-wide crater of the northern cone of Krasheninnikov is seen here looking west across the crater. An eruption 400 years ago formed the small Pauk cone within this crater, and also produced a lava flow from a vent on the upper SW flank of the southern cone (at left out of view).

Photo by Yuri Doubik (Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk).

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Krasheninnikov