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1 | Mount Baker FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2914 Lat/Lng : 48.7701 / -121.8164 | Mount Baker (Lummi: '; or '), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount (...) | |
2 | Mount Lawu FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3122 Lat/Lng : -7.625 / 111.1917 | Mount Lawu, or Gunung Lawu, is a massive compound stratovolcano straddling the border between East Java and Central Java, Indonesia. The north side is deeply eroded and the eastern side contains parasitic crater lakes and parasitic cones. A fumarolic area is located on the south flank at 2,550 m (...) | |
3 | Koryaksky FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3422 Lat/Lng : 53.3209 / 158.7121 | Koryaksky or Koryakskaya Sopka is an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. It lies within sight of Kamchatka Krai's administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Together with neighbouring Avachinsky, it has been designated a Decade Volcano, worthy of particular study (...) | |
4 | Ubinas FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 5361 Lat/Lng : -16.355 / -70.903 | Ubinas is a stratovolcano in the Moquegua Region of southern Peru, east of the city of Arequipa. Part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it is above sea level. The volcano's summit is cut by a wide and deep caldera, which itself contains a smaller crater (...) | |
5 | Lascar (volcano) FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 5558 Lat/Lng : -23.3672 / -67.7281 | Lascar is a stratovolcano within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, a volcanic arc that spans the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. It is the most active volcano in the region, with records of eruptions going back to 1848 (...) | |
6 | Cotopaxi FeatureType : null Elevation : 5835 Lat/Lng : -0.6801 / -78.438 | Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located in the Latacunga canton of Cotopaxi Province, about south of Quito, and northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, in South America. It is the second highest summit in Ecuador, reaching a height of (...) | |
7 | Mount Nyiragongo FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3442 Lat/Lng : -1.5185 / 29.254 | Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda (...) | |
8 | Nemrut (volcano) FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2349 Lat/Lng : 38.6222 / 42.2468 | Nemrut (Sarakn, "Mountain spring") is a dormant volcano in Eastern Turkey, close to Lake Van. The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC. The most powerful eruptions of Nemrut occurred in the Pleistocene (...) | |
9 | Mount Mazama FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2443 Lat/Lng : 42.9515 / -122.169 | Mount Mazama (Giiwas in the Native American language Klamath) is a complex volcano in the Oregon segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range, in the United States, that was destroyed due to a major eruption that took place 7,700 years ago (...) | |
10 | Mount Melbourne FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : -74.35 / 164.7 | Mount Melbourne is a massive stratovolcano that makes up the projection of the coast between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land of Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 by James Clark Ross, who named it for Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister when the expedition was being planned. (...) | |
11 | Mount Akutan FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1242 Lat/Lng : 54.1331 / -165.9855 | Mount Akutan, officially Akutan Peak, is a stratovolcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Akutan Peak, at , is the highest point on the caldera of the Akutan stratovolcano. Akutan contains a 2 km-wide caldera formed during a major explosive eruption about 1600 years ago (...) | |
12 | Mount Kanaga FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1274 Lat/Lng : 51.924 / -177.1648 | Mount Kanaga is a stratovolcano at the northern tip of Kanaga Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is situated within a caldera, which forms the arcuate Kanaton Ridge south and east of Kanaga. A crater lake occupies part of the SE caldera floor (...) | |
13 | Mount Chiginagak FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2092 Lat/Lng : 57.1336 / -156.9914 | Chiginagak Volcano is a stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula, located about 15 km NW of Chiginagak Bay. (...) | |
14 | Mount Recheshnoi FeatureType : null Elevation : 1808 Lat/Lng : 53.1567 / -168.5389 | Mount Recheshnoi (also spelled Recheschnoi) is a heavily eroded stratovolcano located near the center of the SW lobe of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The northeast flank of Recheshnoi has one of the hottest and most extensive thermal areas in Alaska (...) | |
15 | Bridgeman Island (South Shetland Islands) FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -62.0667 / -56.7333 | Bridgeman Island or Bridgemans's Island or Bridgman Island or Helena Island is one of the South Shetland Islands. It is an almost circular, volcanic island marked by steep sides, long and high, lying east of King George Island. Bridgeman Island is located at and has an elevation of (...) | |
16 | Mount Cleveland (Alaska) FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1693 Lat/Lng : 52.8222 / -169.945 | Mount Cleveland (also known as Cleveland Volcano) is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano on the western end of Chuginadak Island, which is part of the Islands of Four Mountains just west of Umnak Island in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Mt (...) | |
17 | Niseko Volcanic Group FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1290 Lat/Lng : 42.875 / 140.6589 | Niseko Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of active stratovolcanoes and lava domes situated in HokkaidÅ, Japan. The volcanoes are younger than 400,000 years. The last eruption was 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Today Iwaonupuri shows fumarolic activity. (...) | |
18 | Mount Andrus FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : -75.8195 / -132.307 | Mount Andrus is a shield volcano 3.2 km (2 mi) SE of Mount Boennighausen in the SE extremity of Ames Range, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1964-68. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Carl H (...) | |
19 | Tipas FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 6638 Lat/Lng : -27.1954 / -68.5605 | Cerro Tipas (also known as Cerro Cazadero or Cerro Walther Penck) is a massive complex volcano in the Andes, located in northwestern Argentina. It is just southwest of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world (...) | |
20 | Mount Kunyit FeatureType : null Elevation : 602 Lat/Lng : -2.592 / 101.63 | Mount Kunyit ("Turmeric Mountain"; also known as Bukit Belerang) is a fumarolic stratovolcano on Sumatra, Indonesia. The summit contains two craters; the uppermost is a crater lake. (...) | |