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List of stratovolcanoes

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A list of stratovolcanoes follows below.

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Africa

Mount Kenya in 1972.
Lava lake inside Mount Nyiragongo.

Cameroon

Democratic Republic of Congo

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

  • Mount Kenya, which contains several volcanic plugs on its peak.
  • Mount Longonot

Rwanda

  • Mount Bisoke, on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Mount Gahinga, on the border between Rwanda and Uganda.
  • Mount Karisimbi, on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Mount Muhabura, on the border between Rwanda and Uganda.
  • Mount Sabyinyo, marks the border between Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Tanzania

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Americas

Caribbean

  • La Grande Soufrière on Basse-Terre Island, Guadeloupe[1]
  • Soufriere Hills on the island Montserrat
    • Its 1995 eruptions resulted in the abandonment of its capital city, Plymouth.
  • Soufrière on the island Saint Vincent
  • Mount Pelée on the island Martinique
    • Its devastating eruption on 8 May 1902 resulted in the complete destruction of its capital city, Saint-Pierre, with the deaths of more than 30,000 inhabitants within it.
  • Mount Liamuiga on the island of Saint Kitts in St. Kitts and Nevis.
  • Nevis Peak on the island of Nevis in St. Kitts and Nevis.
  • Mount Scenery on the island Saba in the Caribbean Netherlands
  • The Quill on the island Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands

Central America

Arenal Volcano in November 2006.

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Honduras

  • Isla Zacate Grande
  • Tiger Island
(From left to right) Agua, Fuego, and Acatenango volcanoes, taken from Guatemala City.

Guatemala

  • Volcán Tacaná on the border between Mexico and Guatemala
  • Volcán Tajumulco
    • It is the highest point and highest volcano in Central America
  • Volcán Cerro Quemado (Almolonga)
  • Volcán Santa María; designated a Decade Volcano.
    • It has a smaller peak called Santiaguito.
  • Volcán Siete Orejas
  • Volcán San Pedro
  • Volcán Atitlán
  • Volcán Tolimán
  • Acatenango
  • Volcán de Fuego.
    • It erupted in June 2018.
  • Volcán de Agua
  • Pacaya
  • Tecuamburro
  • Tahual
  • Volcán Jumay
  • Volcán Ipala
  • Suchitán
  • Volcán Moyuta
  • Volcán Chingo on the border between Guatemala and El Salvador

Nicaragua

Panama

North America

Northwest side of Mount Rainier seen from Tacoma
The Mount Cayley volcanic complex on August 13, 2005. Summits left to right are Pyroclastic Peak and Mount Cayley.
Mount Adams, 2013
Mount Hood, 2017

Canada

Northwest Territories/Nunavut
  • Back River volcanic complex
Yukon
  • Montana Mountain
  • Mount Nansen (Yukon)
Northern British Columbia
Southern British Columbia

Mexico

United States

Alaska
Washington (state)
Oregon
California
  • Mount Shasta
  • Shastina
  • Burney Mountain
  • Magee Peak
  • Geology of the Lassen volcanic area
  • Snow Mountain
  • Latour Butte
  • Mount Yana
  • Mount Maidu (Mineral, California)
  • Mount Tehama
  • Round Top
    • It is unconfirmed to be a stratovolcano, however it has the possibility to be one, due to the abundance of andesite in its vicinity.
Nevada
  • Cleopatra Peak
  • Hamblin Peak
Utah
  • Mount Belknap
  • Monroe Peak
Colorado
  • Summer Coon Volcano
Wyoming
  • Mount Washburn
  • Eagle Peak (Wyoming)
  • Sunlight Peak (Wyoming)
Arizona
New Mexico
Virginia
  • Battle Mountain (Virginia)
New Hampshire

South America

San Vicente in 1994
A view of Acotango from Chungará Lake
Lanín, January 1997

Chile

Colombia

  • Galeras; designated a Decade Volcano.
  • Nevado del Ruiz
    • A 1985 eruption created destructive lahar floods which engulfed the nearby town of Armero.

Ecuador

Peru

Antarctica

Asia

Western Asia

Iran

Turkey

Photo of mount Ararat (ağri dağı) seen from space

Yemen

South Asia

India

Southeast Asia

Indonesia

Volcanic activity at Anak Krakatau
  • Mount Kerinci and Mount Sinabung in Sumatra
  • Mount Rinjani in Lombok
  • Mount Semeru and Mount Bromo in East Java. Together, they form the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park.
  • Mount Agung and Mount Batur in Bali
  • Galunggung in West Java.
  • Krakatoa. A violent eruption in August 1883 resulted in the obliteration of the three-peaked volcanic island.
    • Anak Krakatoa. It emerged from the sea in 1927-1930
  • Mount Merapi in Central Java. It is listed as a Decade Volcano.
  • Mount Tambora in the island of Sumbawa. Its catastrophic eruption in 1815 caused a Year Without a Summer in 1816.
  • Mount Kelud in East Java
Ash plume of Mount Pinatubo during the June 1991 eruption

Malaysia

Myanmar

  • Mount Popa in Kyaukpadaung Township, Nyaung-U District

Philippines

Mayon Volcano in May 08, 2010
  • Mayon Volcano in Albay, The most active volcano in the Philippines, famous for its perfect symmetrical cone shape.
  • Mount Pinatubo in Zambales. The catastrophic June 1991 eruption, which formed a caldera, later filled by a crater lake, had global environmental effects.
  • Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon
  • Mount Kanlaon and Mount Talinis in Negros
  • Mount Arayat in Pampanga
  • Mount Iriga and Mount Isarog in Camarines Sur
  • Mount Mariveles and Mount Natib in Bataan
  • Mount Malindig in Marinduque
  • Mount Apo in Davao City, Mindanao. Considered a dormant volcano, it is the highest point of the Philippines
  • Mount Makiling in Laguna
  • Mount Banahaw in Quezon is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines. Its 1730 eruption caused a debris avalanche and crater lake collapse which flooded Sariaya, Quezon.

East Asia

North Korea

  • Baekdu Mountain, on the border between North Korea and China

Japan

Peak of Mount Fuji
An eruption of Sakurajima in March 2009


Akita Prefecture
Aomori Prefecture
  • Hakkōda Mountains
  • Mount Iwaki
Fukushima Prefecture
Gunma Prefecture
Hokkaido
Iwate Prefecture
  • Mount Iwate
Kagoshima Prefecture
Kumamoto Prefecture
Miyagi Prefecture
Miyazaki Prefecture
  • Mount Ōkueyama
Nagano Prefecture
Nagasaki Prefecture
  • Mount Unzen. Erupted in 1991. Listed as a Decade Volcano
Niigata Prefecture
  • Mount Myōkō
  • Mount Naeba (peak is shared with Nagano Prefecture)
Ōita Prefecture
  • Mount Heiji
  • Mount Hōsshō
  • Mount Inahoshi
  • Mount Kujū
  • Mount Mimata
  • Mount Nakadake
  • Mount North Taisen
  • Mount Taisen
  • Mount Waita
  • Mount Yufu
Shimane Prefecture
  • Mount Sanbe
    • Also known by its Japanese name as Sanbesan, this scenic volcano last erupted in 650 AD [3] and will likely erupt again somewhere in the future.
Shizuoka Prefecture
  • Mount Fuji (peak is shared with Yamanashi Prefecture) Highest point of the country. Last erupted in 1708
  • Mount Ashitaka
  • Mount Echizen-dake
    • This vent is a peak of the Ashitaka volcano.
Tochigi Prefecture
  • Mount Nantai
Tokyo
Tottori Prefecture
  • Mount Daisen
    • Despite that this complex stratovolcano has not erupted in 17,000 years, it is considered dormant and not extinct. It is still one of the two most active volcanoes in the Chūgoku region of Japan , the other being Mount Sanbe in Shimane Prefecture.
Yamagata Prefecture
Yamanashi Prefecture
  • Mount Fuji (peak is shared with Shizuoka Prefecture)


Taiwan

Northern Asia

Russia

Klyuchevskaya Sopka in July 2006

Europe

The summit of Snæfellsjökull.
Etna's 2002 eruption, photographed from the ISS.
Aerial view of Mount Vesuvius.

Central Europe

Slovakia

  • Bogota, in Košice and Prešov.[6]
  • Makovica, in Košice and Prešov.[7]
  • Štiavnica, in Banská Bystrica.[8]
  • Poľana, in Banská Bystrica region[9]
  • Strechový Vrch, in Košice and Prešov.[7]
  • Veľký Milič, in Košice and Prešov.[6]
  • Zlatá Baňa, in Prešov.[6]

Germany

Western Europe

France

  • Monts du Cantal, in Cantal. Largest volcano in Europe by area.[11] Most recent eruption occurred 2-3 MYA.
  • Puy de Sancy, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Both the tallest mountain in the Massif Central and volcano in France.[12] Most recent eruption occurred 200 thousand years ago.

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Southern Europe

Greece

Italy

  • Alban Hills, located 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Rome in Lazio. Last eruption happened in about 5,000 BC.
  • Monte Vulture. Complex stratovolcano.[16]
  • Mount Etna near Catania in Sicily. Tallest active volcano in Europe. Recently erupted in 2013 and volcanic activity is still ongoing. Listed as a Decade Volcano.
  • Mount Vesuvius, located 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east of Naples in Campania. Famous for its violent eruption in August 24, A.D. 79. Its last eruption happened in March 1944. Designated a Decade Volcano.
  • Stromboli and Vulcano, two of the Lipari Islands. The former has been continuously erupting for more than two millennia, making it the second most active volcano in Europe.[citation needed]. The latter last erupted in 1890.

Caucasus

Armenia

  • Aragats

Georgia

  • Didi Abuli
  • Mount Kazbek
  • Mount Samsari
  • Mount Tavkvetili
  • Tsiteli Khati

Czech Republic

Slovenia

  • Smrekovec

Iceland

Norway

  • Beerenberg in Jan Mayen, the world's northernmost active volcano
  • Jan Mayen

Oceania

French Polynesia

  • Mehetia in Windward Islands of the Society Islands

Northern Mariana Islands

Australia

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Mount Lamington in February 1951

Solomon Islands

See also

References

  1. ↑ Soufrière Guadeloupe, West Indies
  2. ↑ "Rattlesnake Formation - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". https://www.nps.gov/joda/learn/nature/rattlesnake-formation.htm#:~:text=A%20proto-Cascade%20Range%20volcano%20%28the%20size%20of%20Mount,found%20along%20Rattlesnake%20Creek%2C%20located%20within%20the%20monument. 
  3. ↑ https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=283002
  4. ↑ Bezymianny volcano, Russia
  5. ↑ Koryaksky Volcano, Russia
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Metallogenic model of the Slanské vrchy Mts., Eastern Slovakia". https://www.geology.sk/wp-content/uploads/documents/foto/MS/MS_1990-3/Geoch%C3%A9mia%20niektor%C3%BDch%20miner%C3%A1lov%20v%20slovinsko-gelnickom%20rudnom%20poli.pdf. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Štrba, Ľubomír. "The Herľany geyser –a unique hydrogeological and geotouristic locality in Europe". https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MiW8U0kW0WIJ:https://journals.agh.edu.pl/geotour/article/download/2517/1716/9525+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk. 
  8. ↑ Lebedev, VA. "Position of the Štiavnica Stratovolcano". https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Position-of-the-Stiavnica-Stratovolcano-in-the-structural-framework-of-the-Carpathian-arc_fig1_258840318. 
  9. ↑ "Poľana" (in en), Wikipedia, 2020-10-29, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Po%C4%BEana&oldid=986092245, retrieved 2021-07-21 
  10. ↑ Heinrich, Eberhardt William (1980). The Geology of Carbonatites. p. 433. ISBN 0882758470. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ad9GAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 5 May 2021. 
  11. ↑ Physics Briefs. Physik Verlag.. 1982. https://books.google.com/books?id=0JkvAAAAMAAJ. 
  12. ↑ "At The heart of Auvergne". https://www.issoire-tourisme.com/en/i-discover/good-reasons-to-come/in-the-heart-of-auvergne/. 
  13. ↑ Kille, Ian. "15. Geology of the battlefield and wider landscape". https://www.flodden1513ecomuseum.org/project/flodden-an-ancient-landscape/15-geology-of-the-battlefield-and-wider-landscape. 
  14. ↑ "Eshaness Coast, Shetland: A blast from the past". Scottish Geology. https://www.scottishgeology.com/best-places/eshaness-coast-shetland/. 
  15. ↑ "Mílos". https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=212030. 
  16. ↑ "Monte Vulture volcano, Italy". http://www.italysvolcanoes.com/VULTURE.html. 
  17. ↑ "Lamington". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vnum=253010. 

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