Aneityum Volcano
Updated: Mar 29, 2024 14:37 GMT -
Stratovolcanoes 852 m / 2,795 ft
Vanuatu, -20.2°S / 169.78°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Vanuatu, -20.2°S / 169.78°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Aneityum volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
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Background
Oval-shaped, 17-km-wide Aneityum Island, also known as Anatom or Anetchom, lies SE of Tanna Island and is the southernmost of the Vanuatu Islands chain. Aneityum consists of two coalescing, dominantly basaltic Pleistocene volcanoes. Both the NW side of Inrerow Atamwan volcano and the SE side of Nanawarez volcano are truncated by large erosional cirques. Volcanic activity ceased during the uppermost late-Pleistocene to Holocene (Carney and Macfarlane, 1979).---
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