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)

• Alcedo, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
• La Cumbre, Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands
• Sierra Negra, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
• Cerro Azul, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
• Wolf, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
• Marchena, Marchena Island, Galápagos Islands
• Darwin, Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands
• Galápagos Rift, Galápagos Islands

• Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex^[1] (British Columbia, Canada)
• 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)
• 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)
• Mt. Bar le Duc (Mauritius)
• 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)
• Mormon Mountain (Arizona, United States)
• House Mountain (Arizona, United States)
• Hackberry Mountain (Arizona, United States)
• Lord Howe Island, (Australia)
• Mount Piton (Piton, Mauritius)
• Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France)
• Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
• Pūhāhonu, Hawaii – the largest shield volcano on Earth by volume
• Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
• Slieve Gullion (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)^[19]
• 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
• Taal Volcano, Philippines

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

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