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Addington volcanic field

volcanic field in Alaska

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ134662472 ↗
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The Addington volcanic field is a submerged volcanic field in the U.S. state of Alaska, located about 20 km (12 mi) offshore of Cape Addington on Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago. It is southwest of Iphigenia Bay and may have been the source of Late Pleistocene pyroclastic fall distributed throughout the Alaskan Panhandle. The Addington volcanic field is not known to have been volcanically active since the Pleistocene.

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This entry incorporates text from “Addington volcanic field” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.