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Crater Lake

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Crater Lake

Lake in southwestern Oregon; area 52 sq km/20 sq mi. It occupies the volcanic crater of Mount Mazama, and is the deepest lake in the USA; depth 589 m/1,932 ft. The lake has no river source or outlet, but is filled by snow and rain (and drained by evaporation). It is now part of Crater Lake National Park (established in 1902).
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Two miles beyond Crater Lake lay Happy Camp--so named because here was found the uppermost fringe of the timber line, where men might warm themselves by fire again.
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Daylight won across Chilcoot that same day, dropping down five hundred feet in the darkness and the flurrying snow to Crater Lake, where he camped.
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