“As we were looking for something that might be fitting, we looked not only at mountains,' Murkowski said. 'We looked at mountains that continue to blow their top to this very day.'
Degassing from the North Cerberus vent on Semisopochnoi Island in between ashy eruptions, seen from the west in 2021.
“As we were looking for something that might be fitting, we looked not only at mountains, but we looked at mountains that continue to blow their top to this very day,” she said., and comprises three volcanic cones. Its previous name, Mount Cerberus, was also named for a fierce creature. In Greek mythology, Cerberus was a hellhound — a three-headed dog that stood guard at the entrance to the underworld.
Besides the mountain, the bill names a federal building in Fairbanks and a job center in Palmer after Young.
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