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Summit lava lake overflows vent rim

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Photo from the rim of Halema‘uma‘u showing the lava lake in the completely filled Overlook crater. Repeated overflows are beginning to construct levees around the lake, such that the level of the lake is now perched about 2 m (7 ft) above the original floor of Halema‘uma‘u.