Yellowstone Caldera
The Yellowstone Caldera, also known as the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, is a Quaternary caldera complex and volcanic plateau spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- 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.
Craig Pass
Mountain saddle
Craig Pass, is a mountain pass located on the Continental Divide in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. The Grand Loop Road crosses the pass approximately 8 miles east of Old Faithful Geyser. Craig Pass is situated 2 miles west of Yellowstone Caldera.
Isa Lake
Isa Lake is located in Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The lake straddles the continental divide at Craig Pass. Hiram M. Chittenden became the first known European to sight the lake in 1891, while searching for the best routes connecting Old Faithful and the West Thumb Geyser Basin. Isa Lake is situated 2 miles west of Yellowstone Caldera.Yellowstone Caldera
- Categories: caldera, supervolcano, and landform
- Location: Teton, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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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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