Photos of volcanoes

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As our image collection has grown immensely over the past years, we are re-arranging the content - in this page you will find a growing list of volcanoes by name and links to image collections for each.
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Ambrym

Ambrym volcano photos
Ambrym (Vanuatu) is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Its vast caldera has an amazing moonscape and several active vents that contain boiling lava lakes, most famous Marum and Benbow.

Bárdarbunga

Bárdarbunga eruption 2014
Photos from the Holuhraun fissure eruption: large lava fountains and lava flows from close!

Batu Tara

Batu Tara photos
A remote island in the Flores Sea of Indonesia formed by a single volcano that has been in strong strombolian eruption for years. We regularly lead expeditions to there where we camp several days to observe it.

Bromo

Bromo volcano photos
Bromo is one of Indonesia's most visited volcanoes. It is the most active vent inside the huge Tengger caldera and erupts every few years.

Colima

Colima volcano photos
This beautiful stratovolcano in western Mexico is one of the most active volcanoes on the American continents. It is known for its often spectacular explosions and sometimes glowing avalanches.

Dallol

Photos of Dallol
Look at one of the most surreal landscapes on Earth, created by hot springs, colorful salt deposits and volcanic gas vents.

Dukono

Dukono volcano photos
Dukono on Halmahera in Indonesia has been in permanent activity for years, often producing ash plumes that drift around the northern part of the island and have become normality.

Ebeko

Ebeko volcano photos
Ebeko on Paramushir Island in the northern Kuriles, Russia, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. It has been in near-constant eruption for years.

Eyjafjallajökull

Eyjafjallajökull volcano photos
The volcano in Iceland with the unpronounceable name... but famous in 2010 when its ash clouds drifted over Europe and forced a unprecedented large-scale airspace closure for several days, stranding millions of passengers.

Erta Ale

Erta Ale volcano photos
During our numerous expeditions to Erta Ale and Dallol, we have documented the active lava lake and its surroundings and changes over the years.

Etna

Etna volcano photos
Etna - Europe's largest and most active volcano is a universe in itself. Browse through our collection spanning almost 20 years of eruptions and more.

Fuego

Fuego volcano photos
One of Central America's most active volcanoes, Fuego in Guatemala is in near-permanent explosive eruption with intermittent phases of increasing activity that generate lava fountains, lava flows and pyroclastic flows.

Gorely

Gorely volcano photos
Gorely is a young and very active shield volcano in southern Kamchatka. It is one of Kamchatka's easiest volcanoes to climb and offers stunning views into vast craters and the surrounding landscape.

Ibu

Ibu volcano photos
Ibu in Halmahera is one of the most active, but rarely visited volcanoes in Indonesia. A spectacular lava dome is growing inside the volcano's breached crater, with frequent explosions.

Ijen

Ijen volcano photos
Ijen volcano in East Java is famous for its turquoise acid crater lake and the large sulfur deposits that are being mined by local workers. At night, the scene is illuminated by ghostly blue flames, as sulfur ignites.

Kelut

Kelut volcano photos
A new lava dome grew inside the crater lake during the effusive eruption in late 2007, replacing most of the lake. Watch the birth of a new mountain!

Kilauea

Kilauea volcano photos
The most active volcano in the world with a record long lasting eruption since 1983: images of lava flows, lava lakes, explosions, lava meeting the ocean, aerials and more.

Krakatau

Krakatau volcano photos
Hundreds of photos from active Krakatau volcano in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia. Most of them taken during our various expeditions to this fascinating volcano.

La Palma volcano

Eruption 2021 photos
Look at pictures from the spectacular volcanic eruption on La Palma Island during Sep-Oct 2021, sorted and annotated in chronological order!

Lassen Peak

Lassen Peak volcano photos
A beautiful stratovolcano in northern California that last erupted in 1914-17.

Mayon

Mayon volcano photos
Mayon on Luzon Island, towering above Legazpi city is famous for being one of the most perfectly symmetrical stratovolcanoes in the world. It is also one of the most active and most dangerous volcanoes (not only) in the Philippines.

Merapi

Merapi volcano photos
One of the most active and most dangerous volcanoes of Indonesia: Merapi meaning "the one who makes fire", is a feared but also venerated holy mountain looming over the city of Yogyakarta, capital of Central Java.

Nyamuragira

Nyamuragira volcano photos
Africa's version of Mauna Loa, Nyamuragira (or Nyamulagira) is a massive basaltic shield volcano neighboring Nyiragongo. It is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and has voluminous eruptions every few years.

Nyiragongo

Nyiragongo volcano photos
Nyiragongo (DR Congo) has the world's largest and most active lava lake. Enjoy our pictures taken during several expeditions over the past years.

Raung

Raung volcano photos
One of the largest and most active volcanoes in East Java, rarely-visited and relatively unknown Raung became (in)famous during its recent eruption in 2015 when its frequent ash plumes forced the repeated closure of Bali's airport.

Sakurajima

Sakurajima volcano photos
One of the world's most active volcanoes, Sakurajima on Japan's Kyushu Island is famous for its frequent vulcanian explosions, often accompanied by eruption lightning.

Stromboli

Stromboli volcano photos
The lighthouse of the Thyrrhenian Sea - thanks to its typical, regular explosions that coined the term "strombolian activity", Stromboli is one of the most famous and photogenic volcanoes in the world.