Augustine Island is essentially a lava dome complex that creates an island located in the Cook Inlet, Alaska, in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. It is one of the most active volcanos in Aleutian Arc. Its most recent eruptions were in 1883,1986, and in 2006, as shown in the picture below. The volcanic ash plume can be seen in almost the very center.
The climate of the Mount Augustine is a maritime climate and is therefore rather wet from the warm air over the Pacific, however stays relatively cool in the summer and can be extremely cold in the winter, as seen above, due the the Aleutian low pressure system.
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