The Tale of Frosty, Alaska’s Dormant Stratovolcano

The Alaskan stratovolcano has not come to life in thousands of years.

Frosty is a stratovolcano located in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain. Although the volcano has been dormant for thousands of years, the rock below its glaciated peak tells a story of its lively past.

The image above, acquired by Landsat 9’s OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on April 22, 2023, shows Frosty’s 5,670-foot (1,728-meter) peak and the nearby town of Cold Bay to the north.

Geologic surveys of the…