PHOTO OF THE DAY June 12, 2005  

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Where Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
When 1997
Photographer Phil Schermeister

Created after the collapse of Mount Mazama, an ancient volcano, Crater Lake is the world's seventh deepest lake. At it's greatest depth it measures 1,932 feet (588 meters) deep.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Amtrak's Coast Starlight" March 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)


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