Alaska Mount Veniaminof Volcano 1983

Mount Veniaminof is an active stratovolcano located on the Alaska Peninsula. This is KIMO News 13 video I shot from a flight over the Alaska volcano in 1983. The mountain was named after the Russian Orthodox missionary priest Ioann (Ivan Popov) Veniaminov (1797-1879)
The volcano was the site of a colossal (VEI 6) eruption around 1750 BC. This eruption left a large caldera. In modern times the volcano has had numerous small eruptions (over ten of them since 1930); these are located at a cinder cone in the middle of the caldera.
Veniaminof has one of the highest elevations of Alaskan volcanoes. Partly for this reason, it is covered by a glacier that fills most of the caldera. Because of the glacier and the caldera walls, there is the possibility for a major flood from a glacier run at some point in the future.

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[johnnyafairbanksak]

And oh yeah, this is from the days when KIMO used to be the #1 station for news in Alaska. Now as KYUR (they changed the call letters some time ago), they have become a total joke; no wonder why KTUU and KTVA have been kicking their asses since 1986!

[TonyEtna1987]

Nice video ! Spectacular.

[BboyGrimm]

i wasnt even born yet, dam i didnt know alaska was like that til '91

[kosbruk32]

i remember this.

[johnnyaalaska]

And noticing before the end of the clip, KIMO's studio cameras were the RCA TK-46 -- the same ones used to tape "Tic Tac Dough"/"The Joker's Wild" (at KCOP in Los Angeles) and "100 Huntley Street"/"Circle Square" (at Crossroads Christian Communications in Canada) around that time.