Young Island volcano
Stratovolcano 1340 m / 4,396 ft
East Antarctica, Balleny Islands, -66.42°S / 162.47°E
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5) | Reports
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East Antarctica, Balleny Islands, -66.42°S / 162.47°E
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5) | Reports
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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Young Island volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
Young Island volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
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Background:
Young Island is the northernmost and second largest of the Balleny Islands off the coast of Antarctica's Victoria Land. Captain Balleny, the discoverer of the islands, reported "smoke" issuing from Freeman Peak on Young Island on February 12, 1839. The initial report of a 12,000 foot volcano on Young Island proved incorrect--the island has a broad plateau-like summit reaching 1340 m. The island is almost completely mantled by ice.---
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Young Island Photos:
 Aerial view of Vulcano Island. The left older part of the island is an older caldera - the remnant of a dissected stratovolcano, the right part is a younger caldera where... |  Bartolomé island with many young cinder cones (Galapagos Islands) (Photo: Ursula Lehmann) |  Young cinder cone on the southern rift zone of El Hierro Island, Canary Islands, near La Restinga (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) |
The youngest volcanic island of the Santorini group, Nea Kameni, is formed in the centre of the olde calder. The island of Therasia in the back ground is part of the olde... |  The perlite cone of Tsingrado volcano, approx. 90,000 years old and the youngest magmatic deposit on the island. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) |  Geology students walking on the young Nea Kameini volcanic deposits with main island of Thira in the background, Santorini, 2010 (Photo: Ingrid) |
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