Caption on image: Akutan Volcano, Alaska, in eruption  PH Coll 247.592<br>Akutan Volcano is located on west-central Akutan Island, southwest of the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. The communities of Unalaska and Dutch Harbor lie to the southwest. This stratovolcano contains an active cinder cone.  Akutan Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian arc.  At least 27 separate eruptive episodes have been noted since 1790.
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Akutan Peak (Alaska); Volcanic eruptions--Alaska; Volcanoes--Alaska; Mountains--Alaska; Akutan Island (Alaska); Akutan Bay (Alaska)</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Bays--Alaska</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46211791" class="extiw" title="d:Q46211791"><span title="clerk for the US Railway Mail Service in Alaska">John E. Thwaites</span></a>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/thwaitesweb/index.html">John E. Thwaites Photographs of Alaska</a>