Wizard Island - Crater Lake National Park - Oregon
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"Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake NP, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet above sea level, about 755 feet above the average surface of the lake" ~ Wikipedia
Waymark Code: WM13NWC
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2021
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County of island: Klamath County
Location of island: Inside CraterLake, US 97, north of Chiloquin
Cion: US Quarter
Date of Issue: 2005
Coin Description:
Obverse
The portrait in left profile of George Washington, the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797, is accompanied with the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" and the lettering "LIBERTY" and it is surrounded with the face value and the inscription "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"
Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN GOD WE TRUST
LIBERTY P JF WC
QUARTER DOLLAR
Engravers: John Flanagan, William Cousins
Reverse:
A portion of Crater Lake, viewed from the south-southwest rim including Wizard Island and Watchman and Hillman Peaks in the lake's rim with the date below
Lettering:
OREGON
1859
CRATER LAKE
DW 2005
E PLURIBUS UNUM
Engraver: Donna Weaver
"Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet (2,113 m) above sea level, about 755 feet (230 m) above the average surface of the lake.
"The cone is capped by a volcanic crater about 500 feet (150 m) wide and 100 feet (30 m) deep. The crater was named the "Witches Cauldron" by William Gladstone Steel in 1885, who also gave Wizard Island its name at the same time. The land area of the island is 315.85 acres (127.82 ha).
"Wizard Island was created after Mount Mazama, a large complex volcano, erupted violently approximately 7,700 years ago, forming its caldera which now contains Crater Lake. Following the cataclysmic caldera-forming eruption, which left a hole about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep where the mountain had once stood, a series of smaller eruptions over the next several hundred years formed several cinder cones on the caldera floor. The highest of these cones, the only one to rise above the current lake level, is Wizard Island, which rises over 2,700 feet (820 m) above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.
"Another large cinder cone, Merriam Cone, is in the northeast part of the lake. Although Merriam Cone rises about 1,400 feet (430 m) above the caldera floor, its summit is still 505 feet (154 m) below the average lake level. Its surface features and lack of a crater indicate that Merriam Cone formed under water." ~ Wikipedia