Fumaroles On Little Sitkin Island
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Fumaroles On Little Sitkin Island is a high steam vent field, two thousand feet up, inside the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, with no temperature recorded and access restricted. The record lists no county at all; the nearest town it names is Beringovskiy.
The distance to the nearest road is listed at nearly two hundred miles. That is the whole story of access: none. Weather on file gives a yearly average a hair above freezing. Snow comes near six feet.
The record gives no best months and no campground. The refuge restricts entry. Without a temperature on record, treat every vent as hot enough to burn. This is a listing for completeness, useful to anyone studying the vents.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 710 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from north to south, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.