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Crater Lake
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Crater Lake
A lake of southwest Oregon in a volcanic crater of the Cascade Range. At 589.3 m (1,932 ft) deep, it is the second-deepest lake in North America and the deepest in the United States. The lake and surrounding parkland are popular tourist attractions.
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crater lake nlago vulcanico


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And when this furry little creature tumbled into a volcanic lake in Germany 47 million years ago, she would never have guessed that her photo would one day end up in text books all around the world or that the BBC would devote an hour-long documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough to her.
Animals that fell into the volcanic lake sank to the bottom and lay virtually undisturbed until the present.
Mysterious and beautiful, they are also deadly, as the dazed survivors of the "exploding" volcanic Lake Nuyos in Cameroon, West Africa, testify.
 
 
 
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