Mount Cerberus News Today

JUNEAU — Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposes renaming the international airport in Fairbanks the “Don Young Fairbanks International Airport” after the U.S. representative.

GCI connected its first Unalaska customers to its fastest 2 gig internet speeds this week, but most island residents will have to wait until the new year before logging on; the late Alaska Rep. Don Young is about to have an Aleutian volcano named after him, after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to rename Mount Cerberus in his honor; and the National Weather Service still has a flood warning in effect, and there is still a potential for standing water and flash flooding in low lyi...

Semispochnoi Island volcanoes (Image: Wikipedia) A historic eruption was reported in 1873, and at least four others may have occurred in the previous hundred years, but documentation is scant. In December, geologists discovered that a trail of volcanic islands off the coast of the US state may actually be connected to one giant caldera. The cluster of six volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands – known as the Islands of the Four Mountains – may be connected to a much bigger underwater volcano. Sc...