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stratovolcano 551 m / 1,808 ft
South Sandwich Islands (UK), -56.3°S / -27.57°W
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Zavodovski volcano eruptions:
2014, 2012, 1908 (?), 1830 (?), 1823 (?), 1819
Typical eruption style:explosive
Zavodovski (Mt Curry) volcano news & activity updatesSat, 18 Jun 2016, 16:17  Steam plume from Zavodovski Island on 13 June 2016 (Terra / NASA via South Sandwich Islands Volcano Monitoring Blog) A significant steam plume emitted from the volcano continues to be visible on satellite imagery, suggesting that the volcano is not completely calm, and might even show some sort of mild activity. Fri, 3 Jun 2016, 09:31 Fri, 9 May 2014, 08:30 ![]() Steam / ash plume from Zavodovski island on 19 April 2014 (NASA) A NASA satellite image from 19 April shows that some activity (strombolian explosions, small lava lake?) was present on the remote volcano in the South Sandwich islands. Read more...On the picture, a thin plume of white rises from the volcano on Zavodovski island, the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands and streams to the northeast. Further south, a wider white plume can be seen blowing across the Atlantic Ocean. This plume rises from the Mount Michael volcano, which is a young and frequently active strato-volcano located on Saunders Island, near the center of the South Sandwich Island chain. [ less] Sat, 7 Jul 2012, 10:05 No more reports about activity from the remote Zavodovski volcano have become available recently, and there is no thermal hot spot visible at the volcano. Therefore, its status has been placed back to "green". Thu, 3 May 2012, 11:01 ![]() Plume of Mt Curry on 27 April 2012 seen on Aqua satellite (NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team; annotation by E. Klemetti) A new eruption on the remote Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich island chain was detected by NASA's Aqua satellite on 27 April 2012. Read more...The satellite picture shows a plume originating from the island's active crater known as Mt Curry, or sometimes also referred to as Mt Asphyxia. It is possible that the plume is created by lava flows in contact with sea water, as it appears to be mainly steam. Not much else is known about the eruption, because the island is uninhabited and extremely remote and has no monitoring on the island. Most of the information about this eruption will rely on remote sensing (satellite observations). [ less] First visit to our site? If you havn't done it yet, download the Volcanoes & Earthquakes app to get one of the fastest volcano news online: Android | IOS
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