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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

–noun
a volcanic area in SW Alaska, in Katmai National Monument.
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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes  
A volcanic region of southwest Alaska at the upper end of the Alaska Peninsula. It was formed by the eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912, when ash and rock fragments filled a valley adjacent to the volcano, and hot gases were emitted through countless cracks in the surface.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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