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| Tristan da Cunha |
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Tristan da Cunha (pronounced /ˈtrɪstən də ˈkuːnə/) is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, and also the name of the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying 2,816...
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| Mount Vesuvius |
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Mount Vesuvius (in Italian Monte Vesuvio and in Latin Mons Vesuvius) is a stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting. The...
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| Mount Eccles National Park |
Mount Eccles National Park is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 270 km west of Melbourne.
Mount Eccles is located inside the national park and is the site of the most recent active volcano in Australia. The first activity was about 40,000...
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| Marquesas Islands |
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The Marquesas Islands (French: Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua (K)enana (North Marquesan) and Te Fenua `Enata (South Marquesan), both meaning "The Land of Men") are a group of volcanic islands in French...
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| Mauna Loa |
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Mauna Loa (pronounced /ˌmɔːnə ˈloʊ.ə/ or /ˌmaʊnə ˈloʊ.ə/ in English, [ˈmounə ˈloə] in Hawaiian) is the largest volcano on Earth in terms of volume and area covered and one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi...
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| Mount Etna |
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Mount Etna (Αἴτνη (Aítnē) in Classical Greek, Aetna in Latin, also known as Muncibeḍḍu (beautiful mountain) in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian (from the Latin mons and the Arabic gibel, both meaning mountain) is an active stratovolcano on the...
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| Mauna Kea |
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Mauna Kea (pronounced /ˌmɔːnə ˈkeɪ.ə/ or /ˌmaʊnə ˈkeɪ.ə/ in English, [ˈmounə ˈkɛjə] in Hawaiian) is an inactive volcano in the U.S. state of Hawaii, one of five volcanoes which together form the island of Hawaii. Mauna kea means "white mountain" in...
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| Haleakalā |
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Haleakala |
Haleakalā (pronounced /ˌhɑːliˌɑːkəˈlɑː/ in English and [ˈhɐleˈjɐkəˈlaː] in Hawaiian), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.
Early Hawaiians applied the name Haleakalā ("house...
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| Kīlauea |
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Kilauea |
Kīlauea (pronounced /kiːlaʊˈeɪə/ in English, [ˈkiːlouˈɛjə] in Hawaiian) is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the Island of Hawaiʻi. In Hawaiian, the word kīlauea means "spewing" or "much...
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| Emi Koussi |
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Emi Koussi is a high pyroclastic shield volcano that lies at the south end of the Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara of northern Chad. It is the highest mountain in Chad, and the highest in the Sahara. The volcano is one of several in the...
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| Yellowstone Caldera |
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The Yellowstone Caldera is the volcanic caldera in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The caldera is located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, in which the vast majority of the park is contained. The major features of the caldera...
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| Newberry Volcano |
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Newberry Volcano is a large potentially active shield volcano located 40 miles (64 km) east of the Cascade Range and about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bend, Oregon. It is not a typical shield volcano. In addition to erupting basaltic lavas, it...
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| Hualālai |
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Hualalai |
Hualālai (pronounced [huəˈlaːlei] in Hawaiian) is a dormant shield volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi in the Hawaiian Islands. Its peak is 8,271 ft (2,521 m) above sea level. Hualālai is one of five volcanoes on Hawaii island and it lies roughly due...
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| Diamond Head |
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Diamond Head, Hawaii |
Diamond Head is the name of a volcanic tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu and known to Hawaiians as Lēʻahi, most likely from lae 'browridge, promontory' plus ʻahi 'tuna' because the shape of the ridgeline resembles the shape of a tuna's...
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| Lord Howe Island |
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Lord Howe Island (pronounced /ˈhaʊ/, or /ˈhæɔ/ in Australian English phonology) is a small island in the Tasman Sea 600 kilometres (370 mi) east of the Australian mainland. The Lord Howe Island Group, including nearby Ball's Pyramid, is administered...
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| Teide |
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Mount Teide or, in Spanish, Pico del Teide [ˈpiko ðel ˈtejðe] is the highest elevation of Spain and the islands of the Atlantic (it is the third largest volcano in the world from its base). It is an active volcano which last erupted in 1909 from the...
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| Ball's Pyramid |
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Ball's Pyramid is an erosional remnant of a shield volcano and caldera that formed about 7 million years ago. Ball's Pyramid is 20 km (13 miles) southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific Ocean. It is 562 m (1844 ft) high, while measuring only 200...
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| Loihi Seamount |
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Lōʻihi Seamount is an active undersea volcano located around 35 km (22 mi) off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaiʻi. It lies on the flank of Mauna Loa, the largest shield volcano on Earth. Lōʻihi Seamount is the newest volcano in the...
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| Mount Warning |
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Mount Warning, also known as Wollumbin is a mountain 14 kilometres (9 mi) west-south-west of Murwillumbah, near the border with Queensland on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Due to Mount Warning's proximity to Cape Byron, the...
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| Kohala |
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Kohala is the oldest of five volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaii. It is believed to have breached sea level more than 500,000 years ago and to have last erupted 120,000 years ago. Toward the end of its shield-building stage 250,000 to 300...
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| Piton de la Fournaise |
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Piton de la Fournaise (French): "Peak of the Furnace") is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island (a French territory) in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the...
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| Mount Redoubt |
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Redoubt Volcano |
Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active and recently eruptive stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located in the Chigmit Mountains (a subrange of the Aleutians), the mountain is just west of Cook...
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| Anahim Volcanic Belt |
The Anahim Volcanic Belt is a 600 km (373 mi) long volcanic belt, stretching from just north of Vancouver Island to near Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada. The Anahim Volcanic Belt has had three main magmatic episodes: 15–13 Ma, 9–6 Ma, and 3–1 Ma....
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| Tibesti Mountains |
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The Tibesti Mountains are a volcanic group of inactive volcanoes with one potentially active volcano in the central Sahara desert in the Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region of northern Chad. The northern slopes extend a short distance into southern Libya....
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| Piton des Neiges |
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The Piton des Neiges (Snow Peak) is a massive 3,069 m (10,069 ft) shield volcano on Réunion, one of the volcanic islands in the Mascarene Archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is considered to be the highest point in the Indian Ocean. The...
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| Puu Kukui |
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Puʻu Kukui is a mountain peak in Hawaiʻi. It is the highest peak of Mauna Kahalawai (the West Maui Mountains). The 1,764-metre (5,790 ft) summit rises above the Puʻu Kukui Watershed Management Area, an 8,661-acre (35.05 km) private nature preserve...
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| West Maui Mountains |
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The West Maui Mountains or West Maui Volcano, known to the Hawaiians as Mauna Kahalawai and Hale Mahina, form a much eroded shield volcano that constitutes the western one-quarter of the Hawaiian Island of Maui.
The port of Lāhainā lies on the...
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Pu'u 'O'o |
Puʻu ʻŌʻō (often written Puu Oo, and pronounced [puʔu ʔoːʔoː] (roughly "poo-oo oh-oh")) is a cinder/spatter cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kīlauea volcano of the Hawaiian Islands. Puʻu ʻŌʻō has been erupting continuously since January 3, 1983,...
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| Island Park Caldera |
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The volcanic feature commonly called the Island Park Caldera in the state of Idaho, USA, is actually two calderas, one nested inside the other. The Island Park Caldera is the older and much larger caldera, with approximate dimensions of 58 miles (93...
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| Tweed Volcano |
Tweed Volcano was an early Miocene shield volcano in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. In the course of about three million years, Tweed Volcano was formed over the East Australia hotspot when this part of the continent passed over it around...
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| Fernandina Island |
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Fernandina Island (formerly known in English as Narbrough Island, after John Narbrough) is the third largest, and youngest, island of the Galápagos Islands. Like the others, the island was formed by the Galápagos hotspot. The island is an active...
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| Manana |
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Mānana Island (technically an islet) is located 0.75 mi (1.21 km) off Kaupō Beach, near Makapuʻu at the eastern end of the Island of Oʻahu in the Hawaiian Islands. In the Hawaiian language, mānana means "buoyant". The islet is commonly referred to...
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| Isabela Island |
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Isabela Island is the largest island of the Galápagos with an area of 4,640 square kilometres (1,790 sq mi), and length of 100 kilometres (62 mi) nearly 4 times larger than Santa Cruz, the next largest of the islands. This island was named in honor...
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| Ua Huka |
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Ua Huka is one of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is situated in the northern group of the archipelago, approximately 25 mi (40 km). (42 km) to the east of Nuku Hiva, at 8°54′S 139...
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Rainbow Range (Coast Mountains) |
The Rainbow Range, formerly known as the Rainbow Mountains, is a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Anahim Lake. Named Tsitsutl, which now is the name of its highest peak and meaning "rainbow...
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| Queen Mary's Peak |
Queen Mary's Peak is the summit of the island of Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It has an elevation of 2,062 metres (6,765 ft) above sea level. It is named after Mary of Teck, the Queen consort of King George V.
The...
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| La Cumbre |
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La Cumbre is a volcano on Fernandina Island in the Galápagos Islands.
It began erupting again in April 2009; according to an AOL online news report, it last erupted four years ago. The report noted the area is uninhabited by humans, but that the...
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| Bruneau-Jarbidge supervolcano |
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The Bruneau-Jarbidge caldera (sometimes called a supervolcano) is located in present-day southwest Idaho. The volcano erupted during the Miocene, between ten and twelve million years ago, spreading a thick blanket of ash in the Bruneau-Jarbidge...
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| Kilauea Iki |
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Kīlauea Iki is a collapse crater which is next to the main summit caldera of Kīlauea.
In August 1959, a swarm of deep earthquakes was detected by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. In October it was indicated by seismographs that the summit of...
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| Helmet Peak |
Helmet Peak is a monogenetic cinder cone in British Columbia, Canada. The basaltic tuff breccias on Lake Island and Lady Douglas Island originated from Helmet Peak on Lady Island.
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| Satah Mountain East |
Satah Mountain is a cinder cone, located 35 km (22 mi) east-northeast of Nimpo Lake in central British Columbia, Canada. It areas to the south form a N-S-trending chain of cinder cones of Pleistocene and Holocene age. It lies on the Chilcotin...
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| Nazko Cone |
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Nazko Cone is a small potentially active basaltic cinder cone in central British Columbia, Canada, located 75 km west of Quesnel and 150 kilometers southwest of Prince George. It is considered the easternmost volcano in the Anahim Volcanic Belt. The...
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| Tsitsutl Peak |
Tsitsuti Peak is the highest volcanic peak of the Rainbow Range in British Columbia, Canada, located within Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park, 43 km (27 mi) northwest of Anahim Lake and 44 km (27 mi) northeast of Thunder Mountain.
"Tsitsutl" means ...
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| Itcha Mountain |
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The Itcha Range is a mountain range on the Chilcotin Plateau of the West-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The range is located 25 miles (40 km) NE of Anahim Lake. Its main peaks are Itcha Mountain and Mount Downton.
The Itcha Range is a...
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| Ilgachuz Range |
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The Ilgachuz Range is a name given to an extinct shield volcano in British Columbia, Canada. It is not a mountain range in the normal sense, because it was formed as a single volcano that has been eroded for the past 5 million years. It lies on the...
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| Itcha Mountain |
Itcha Mountain is one of the two main volcanic peaks of the Itcha Range, which is located in the Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is in the Anahim Volcanic Belt, which formed when the North American Plate...
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| Māhukona |
Māhukona is a submerged shield volcano on the northwestern flank of the Island of Hawaii. A drowned coral reef at about 3,770 feet (-1,150 m) below sea level and a major break in slope at about 4,400 feet (-1,340 m) below sea level represent old...
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| Far Mountain |
Far Mountain is the highest of the 13 peaks of the Ilgachuz Range in the Anahim Volcanic Belt in British Columbia, Canada. The Ilgachuz Range is one of the three major shield volcanoes that form the Anahim Volcanic Belt when the North American Plate...
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| Anahim Peak |
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Anahim Peak, sometimes mistakenly called Anaheim, is a volcanic cone in the Anahim Volcanic Belt in British Columbia, Canada, located 39 km (24 mi) northwest of Anahim Lake and 11 km (7 mi) east of Tsitsutl Peak. It was formed when the North...
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| Adams Seamount |
Adams Seamount is a submarine volcano above the Pitcairn hotspot in the central Pacific Ocean about 90 kilometres (56 mi) southwest of Pitcairn Island.
It is a massive seamount rising 3,500 metres (11,483 ft) from the sea floor to about 59 metres ...
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| Mount Downton |
Mount Downton is the highest summit of the 10 km (6 mi) diameter Itcha Range, located 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Anahim Lake and 33 km (21 mi) east of Far Mountain in the Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It...
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| New England Seamount chain |
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The New England Seamount chain is an underwater chain of seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean stretching over 1,000 kilometers from the edge of the Georges Bank off the coast of Massachusetts. The chain consists of over twenty extinct volcanic peaks,...
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| Axial Seamount |
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Axial Seamount is a submarine volcano in the Juan de Fuca Ridge, located at 45.95°N, 130.00°W—roughly 480 km (300 mi) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon. It rises 700 metres (2,300 ft) above the mean level of the central Juan de Fuca Ridge and is the most...
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| Bowie Seamount |
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Bowie Seamount is a large submarine volcano in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, located 180 km (112 mi) west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. It is named after Captain William Bowie of the Coast & Geodetic Survey. The volcano...
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| Tuzo Wilson Seamounts |
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The Tuzo Wilson Seamounts, also called J. Tuzo Wilson Knolls and Tuzo Wilson Knolls, are two young active submarine volcanoes off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, located 200 km (124 mi) northwest of Vancouver Island and south of the Queen...
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| Moai |
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The Moai Seamount is a submarine volcano, the second most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. It is east of Pukao seamount and west of Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred...
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| Pukao |
The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres...
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| Kodiak Seamount |
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Kodiak Seamount is the oldest seamount in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, with an estimated age of 24 million years. It lies at the northernmost end of the chain and its flat-topped summit is strewn with fault lines. Like the rest of the Kodiak...
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| Cobb Seamount |
The Cobb Seamount is submarine volcano located in the northeast Pacific Ocean, 500 kilometers (270 miles) west of Grays Harbor, Washington. It is part of the Cobb-Eickelberg Seamount chain and was formed by the Cobb hotspot. It is near Axial...
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| Hodgkins Seamount |
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Hodgkins Seamount is a seamount in the Kodiak-Bowie Seamount chain, located south of Pierce Seamount and north of Bowie Seamount. Hodgkins Seamount has apparently experienced two generically different episodes of volcanism, separated by about 12...
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