It's a new way of monitoring volcanoes now, but this is going to be kind of the standard way of doing it.
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.
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.
Who has the authority to do this? Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point.
We have 42 active volcanoes in Alaska. It shouldn't be a surprise that two are active at the same time.
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