Mount Cleveland (Alaska)

Mount Cleveland
The nearly symmetrical face of Mount Cleveland, 1994
Highest point
Elevation	5,675 ft (1,730 m)[1]
Prominence	5,675 ft (1,730 m)[2]
Listing	US most prominent peaks 82nd
Coordinates	52°49′20″N 169°56′42″W / 52.8222°N 169.945°W / 52.8222; -169.945[1]
Geography
Mount Cleveland Alaska
Location	Chuginadak Island, Alaska, United States
Topo map	USGS Samalga Island[3]
Geology
Age of rock	Holocene
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Volcanic arc/belt	Central Aleutian Arc
Last eruption	May 17, 2017 [1]

Mount Cleveland (also known as Cleveland Volcano) is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano on the western end of Chuginadak Island, which is part of the Islands of Four Mountains just west of Umnak Island in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Mt. Cleveland is 5,675 ft (1,730 m) high, and one of the most active of the 75 or more volcanoes in the larger Aleutian Arc. Aleutian natives named the island after their fire goddess, Chuginadak, who they believed inhabited the volcano. In 1894 a team from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey visited the island and gave Mount Cleveland its current name, after then-president Grover Cleveland.

One of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian Arc, Cleveland has erupted at least 22 times in the last 230 years^[when?]. A VEI 3 eruption in 1944 produced the arc's only known volcanic fatality. Most recently Mount Cleveland has erupted three times in 2009, twice in 2010, once in 2011 and in 2016 and 2017.^[1] The volcano's remoteness limits opportunities for its study, and the Alaska Volcano Observatory relies heavily on satellites for monitoring. The volcano is primarily hazardous to aircraft; many of the flights over the north Pacific approach the vicinity of the volcano, and volcanic ash released from eruptions can damage sensitive electronic equipment and sensors.