Lake
Yellowstone Lake
West Thumb, the lake’s round western bay, is itself a volcanic crater — formed by an eruption about 174,000 years ago.
Source: nps.gov
The lake sits inside the Yellowstone Caldera, 30 by 45 miles across, left by an eruption 631,000 years ago. The area still has 700 to 3,000 earthquakes a year.
Source: nps.gov
Find Yellowstone Lake on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Yellowstone Lake label sits at 44.4° N, 110.4° W, in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Also labelled Yellowstone.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Great Salt Lake — about 390 km south-west
- Cascade Range — about 920 km north-west
- Death Valley — about 1,100 km south-west
- Mississippi — about 1,800 km east
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