I don't know that there was any concerted effort to drop saint. Typically the way this goes is that the simplest name sticks. |
It happened a little sooner than we thought, but we weren't surprised that it happened. |
It's a new way of monitoring volcanoes now, but this is going to be kind of the standard way of doing it. |
Just very light small amounts, you have to be looking for it to find it in the snow, very fine-grained stuff. |
Other names might have been attached to it by various people, but for now what's in the dictionary, which is our reference, is Augustine Island and Augustine Volcano. |
We have 42 active volcanoes in Alaska. It shouldn't be a surprise that two are active at the same time. |
Who has the authority to do this? Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point. |