List of shield volcanoes

This list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes. Shield Volcanoes are one of the three types of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow)

• Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex^[1] (British Columbia, Canada )

• Alcedo Volcano, Galápagos Islands
• La Cumbre, Galápagos Islands
• Sierra Negra, Galápagos Islands
• Cerro Azul, Galápagos Islands
• Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands

• Barrier^[2] (Kenya)
• Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
• Erta Ale^[3] (Ethiopia)
• Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
• Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
• Mount Karthala^[4] (Comoros)
• Namarunu^[5] (Kenya)
• Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
• Mount Nyamuragira^[6] (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France )
• Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
• Kīlauea, Hawaii, US
• Mauna Loa, Hawaii
• Mount Halla (Jeju Island, South Korea )
• Mascarin Peak (Marion Island,South Africa )

• Heart Peaks
• Itcha Range^[7] (British Columbia, Canada )
• Lava plateau of Level Mountain^[1] (British Columbia, Canada )

• Arlington Cone (Arizona)
• Belknap Crater (Oregon)
• Gillespie Volcano (Arizona)
• Haleakalā (Maui)
• Hell's Half Acre (Idaho)
• House Mountain (Arizona)
• Hualālai (Hawaii)
• Indian Heaven (Washington (state) )
• Larch Mountain (Oregon)
• Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
• Medicine Lake Volcano (California )
• Newberry Volcano (Oregon)
• Pelican Butte (Oregon)
• Shoshone Lava Field (Idaho)
• The Three Sisters (Oregon)
• Wapi Lava Field (Idaho)

• Tilarán

• Mount Marsabit^[8]
• Menengai^[9]

• La Grille^[10] (Comoros)
• Queen Mary's Peak^[11] (South Atlantic Ocean)
• Rangitoto Island^[12] (New Zealand)
• Santorini^[13] (Greece)
• São Tomé^[14] (São Tomé and Príncipe, Atlantic Ocean)
• Skjaldbreiður (Iceland)^[15]
• Kollóttadyngja (Iceland)
• Trölladyngja (Iceland)
• Mount Takahe^[16] (Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica)
• Taveuni^[17] (Fiji)
• Karaca Dağ^[18] (Turkey)

• Mount Andrus
• Mount Berlin
• Mount Moulton
• Mount Sidley (Marie Byrd Land)
• Mount Terror (Ross Dependency)

• Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
• Banks Peninsula (Christchurch, New Zealand)
• Bermuda Pedestal (Bermuda, United Kingdom )
• Dunedin Volcano (Dunedin, New Zealand)
• Kohala (Hawaii, United States )
• Kookooligit Mountains (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States )
• Lord Howe Island, (Australia )
• Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France )
• Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
• Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
• Slieve Gullion (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom )^[19]
• Tamu Massif^[20] (Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean)
• Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
• Topo Volcano, Azores, Portugal
• Tweed Volcano, Australia
• Mount Charter, Australia
• Mount Tor, Australia
• Mount Julia, Australia
• Mount Cripps, Australia
• Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia .)

• Alba Mons
• Olympus Mons
• Arsia Mons
• Ascraeus Mons
• Pavonis Mons
• Syrtis Major Planum
• Maat Mons
• Theia Mons

Io

Io, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons.

• Sacabaya
• Tata Sabaya

• Apoyeque
• Masaya

• Rabaul, New Britain

• Ambrym, Vanuatu
• Purico Complex, Chile

• List of stratovolcanoes
• List of subglacial volcanoes
• List of cinder cones
• List of lava domes
• Shield volcano

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