Figure 12. Aerial view of Mt. Katahdin. Numbers locate the following features: (1) Baxter Peak, (2) Chimney Pond, (3) Basin Ponds, (4) North Basin, (5) Hamlin Peak, (6) Northwest Basin. Notice thin edge of Knife-Edge and Hamlin Ridge and the rounded shape of the cirque headwalls. Small ridges south and east of Basin Ponds are moraines discussed in text. View image upside-down if topography appears to be reversed. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey.)

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