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The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska's Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered.

The crater has undergone at least one glaciation event since it formed, meaning it was swallowed by an ice sheet when glaciers last covered southwestern Alaska between 23,000 and 14,700 years ago.