Yellowstone Caldera

The Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, is a Quaternary caldera complex and volcanic plateau spanning parts of , , and .
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  • Type: Caldera
  • Description: volcanic caldera in Yellowstone National Park in the United states
  • Also known as: Yellowstone Supervolcano” and “Yellowstone volcano

Places of Interest

Highlights include Craig Pass and Isa Lake.

Mountain saddle
, is a mountain pass located on the Continental Divide in in , United States. The Grand Loop Road crosses the pass approximately 8 miles east of Old Faithful Geyser. is situated 2 miles west of Yellowstone Caldera.

is located in , in the U.S. state of . The lake straddles the continental divide at . Hiram M. Chittenden became the first known European to sight the lake in 1891, while searching for the best routes connecting and the West Thumb Geyser Basin. is situated 2 miles west of Yellowstone Caldera.

Yellowstone Caldera

Latitude
44.43448° or 44° 26′ 4″ north
Longitude
-110.68039° or 110° 40′ 49″ west
Elevation
9,203 feet (2,805 metres)
Open location code
85PFC8M9+QR
Geo­Names ID
11523471
Wiki­data ID
Q650836
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Yellowstone Caldera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بركان يلوستون الهائل
  • Arabic: كلديرا يلوستون
  • Armenian: Ելոուսթոունի կալդերա
  • Armenian: Յելոուսթոնի կալդերա
  • Asturian: Caldera de Yellowstone
  • Azerbaijani: Yellouston kalderası
  • Azerbaijani: Yellouston kalderi
  • Basque: Yellowstoneko galdara
  • Belarusian: Елаўстонская кальдэра
  • Catalan: Caldera de Yellowstone
  • Catalan: Volcà de Yellowstone
  • Catalan: Yellowstone Supervolcano
  • Chinese: 黄石火山
  • Croatian: Yellowstonska kaldera
  • Czech: Yellowstonská kaldera
  • Danish: Yellowstone Caldera
  • Dutch: Yellowstonecaldera
  • Egyptian Arabic: يلوستون كالديرا
  • Esperanto: vulkano Yellowstone
  • Estonian: Yellowstone’i supervulkaan
  • Finnish: Yellowstonen kaldera
  • French: caldeira de Yellowstone
  • French: Caldeira de Yellowstone
  • German: Yellowstone Caldera
  • German: Yellowstone
  • Indonesian: Kaldera Yellowstone
  • Italian: Caldera di Yellowstone
  • Japanese: イエローストーン・カルデラ
  • Japanese: イエローストーン国立公園
  • Japanese: イエローストーン火山
  • Kazakh: Йеллоустоун жанартауы
  • Korean: 옐로스톤 칼데라
  • Macedonian: Јелоустоунска Калдера
  • Malay: Kaldera Yellowstone
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Yellowstone-vulkanen
  • Norwegian: Yellowstone-kalderaen
  • Persian: غول‌دهانه یلواستون
  • Polish: Kaldera Yellowstone
  • Portuguese: Caldeira de Yellowstone
  • Romanian: Caldera Yellowstone
  • Russian: Йеллоустонская кальдера
  • Serbian: Јелоустонска калдера
  • Sinhala: යෙලෝස්ටෝන් යමහල් ආවාටය
  • Spanish: Caldera de Yellowstone
  • Swedish: Yellowstone-calderan
  • Swedish: Yellowstone-kalderan
  • Turkish: Yellowstone Kalderası
  • Ukrainian: Єллоустонська кальдера
  • Ukrainian: Єллоустоун
  • Vietnamese: Hõm chảo Yellowstone

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