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Katmai National Park was started in 1918 in southern Alaska, United States. It protects the region surrounding Mount Katmai and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, which is an area of lava flows and ash created by a huge volcano eruption. The volcano is still active today. The park has salmon and thousands of brown bears. The Katmai National Park includes a tundra, forests, lakes and mountains.

Images for kids

  • Katmai National Park, Alaska

    3D image of the park created via Landsat data overlaid on a digital elevation model

  • A056, Katmai National Park, Brooks Falls, Alaska, USA, mountains, 2002

    Fourpeaked Mountain and Mount Douglas

  • Novarupta

    Novarupta lava dome

  • Lower end of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (2) (12292001613)

    Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

  • Trident Volcano

    Trident volcano

  • Brown bear

    A brown bear in Hallo Bay, Katmai National Park, Alaska

  • Grizzly Bear Fishing Brooks Falls

    Grizzly bear fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls, Alaska

  • A053, Katmai National Park, Brooks Falls, Alaska, USA, bear and salmon, 2002

    Bear catches salmon at Brooks Falls

  • Katmai

    Pyroclastic flow deposits in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

  • KatmaiNP L5 03sep95

    Satellite image of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and surrounding area

  • A055, Katmai National Park, Brooks Falls, Alaska, USA, mountains, 2002

    Mountains of the Aleutian Range from a floatplane flying to Brooks Camp

  • Katmai National Park Geologic Map

    Katmai National Park Geologic map, where nig is the Episode I valley-filling ignimbrite of 6–7 June 1912., and nrd is the Novarupta rhyolite dome.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Parque nacional y reserva Katmai para niños

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