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Perspective map of Lava Beds National Monument in California. The active Medicine Lake Volcano erupts, showing plumes of smoke emerging from the lava flow. The present-day park boundary and surrounding terrain are shown in shades of brown to the northeast of the volcano.

Extended Description

Medicine Lake Volcano is a mountain positioned at the left center edge and comprising about one-third of the map. The remaining two-thirds of the map shows eastern and northeastern labeled terrain.

Starting from Medicine Lake Volcano, the lava flow moves due east, flowing directly into the present-day backward L-shaped park boundary and past Schonchin Butte near the boundary’s western edge. The park boundary extends from the eastern base of the volcano to the western edge of the former extent of Tulle Lake, a circular-shaped lake that’s slightly larger than Medicine Lake Volcano. The considerably smaller Medicine Lake is west of the lava flow on the summit of Medicine Lake Volcano.

Labeled parts of Tulle Lake include a point at Captain Jack’s Stronghold on the western lake shore. The Peninsula extends out from the southern lake shore to Petroglyph Point, which nearly reaches the shoreline. The Lost River stretches north of Tulle Lake across a wide valley.

The long Gillem Bluff extends along the northeastern shore of Tulle Lake, across a narrow section of land that divides Tulle Lake from the former extent of Lower Klamath Lake. Lower Klamath Lake is about the same size as Tulle Lake, also somewhat circular in shape with a northern section that curves around the eastern lake shore.

Mountain peaks and a vast mostly flat terrain extend out and beyond the park territory in all directions.