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Aogashima
is a volcanic island to the south of Japan in northernmost Micronesia. It is the southernmost and most isolated inhabited island of the Izu Islands. The islands border the northeast Philippine Sea and lie north of the Ogasawara Islands. The island lies approximately south of mainland Tokyo and south of Hachijō-jima.
Mount Hudson
mountain in Aysén Province, Chile
Yangmingshan National Park
Yangmingshan National Park, located in both Taipei and New Taipei City, is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan. The districts that are partially in the park include Taipei's Beitou and Shilin Districts; and New Taipei's Wanli, Jinshan, Sanzhi and Tamsui Districts. The national park is known for its cherry blossoms, hot springs, sulfur deposits, fumaroles, venomous snakes, and hiking trails, including Taiwan's tallest dormant volcano, Qixing (Seven Star) Mountain rising to 1,120 m (3,675 ft). In June 2020, Yangmingshan National Park was certified as the world's first Urban Quiet
Onekotan
Onekotan (; , occasionally ; ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "large village”. It is the second largest island, after Paramushir, in the northern subgroup of the Kurils. It is administratively included in the Severo-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin oblast, Russia.
Aoba Island
Ambae, also known as Aoba, Omba, Oba, or Opa and formerly Lepers’ Island, is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, approximately north-northwest of Vanuatu's capital city, Port Vila. It is also Vanuatu's largest active volcano.
Mount Suribachi
a 169-metre (554 ft)-high mountain on the southwest end of Iwo Jima
Dempo
mountain in South Sumatra, Indonesia
Santa Ana Volcano
Volcano in the Department of Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Matua
island in Russia
Kama‘ehuakanaloa Seamount
undersea mountain in Hawaii, United States
Volcán San Cristóbal
Highest volcano in Nicaragua at 1,745 m (5,725 ft).
Chirinkotan
Chirinkotan (; Japanese 知林古丹島; Chirinkotan-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "mudslide". It is located west of Ekarma, its nearest neighbor.
Eldgjá
Eldgjá (, "fire canyon") is a volcano and a canyon in Iceland. Eldgjá is part of the Katla volcano; it is a segment of a long chain of volcanic craters and fissure vents that extends northeast away from Katla volcano almost to the Vatnajökull ice cap. This fissure experienced a major eruption around 939 CE, which was the largest effusive eruption in recent history. It covered about of land with of lava from two major lava flows.
Makanrushi
thumb|right|225px|Onekotan Island (center), with Makanrushi at upper left and [[Kharimkotan at bottom. North at top.]]
Tolbachik
Tolbachik () is a volcanic complex on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It consists of two volcanoes, Plosky (flat) Tolbachik (3,085 m) and Ostry (sharp) Tolbachik (3,672 m), which as the names suggest are respectively a flat-topped shield volcano and a peaked stratovolcano. As Ostry is the mountain's highest point, the entire mountain is often referred to as "Ostry Tolbachik", not to be confused with Ostry, a separate volcano to the north also on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Ubinas
Ubinas is an active stratovolcano in the Moquegua Region of southern Peru, approximately east of the city of Arequipa. Part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it rises above sea level. The volcano's summit is cut by a and caldera, which itself contains a smaller crater. Below the summit, Ubinas has the shape of an upwards-steepening cone with a prominent notch on the southern side. The gently sloping lower part of the volcano is also known as Ubinas I and the steeper upper part as Ubinas II; they represent different stages in the volcano's geological history.
Acatenango
Turrialba
active volcano in Costa Rica
Fagradalsfjall
Fagradalsfjall () is an active tuya volcano formed in the Last Glacial Period on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around from Reykjavík, Iceland. Fagradalsfjall is also the name for the wider volcanic system covering an area wide and long between the Eldvörp–Svartsengi and Krýsuvík systems. The highest summit in this area is Langhóll (). No volcanic eruption had occurred for 815 years on the Reykjanes Peninsula until 19 March 2021 when a fissure vent appeared in Geldingadalir to the south of Fagradalsfjall mountain. The 2021 eruption was effusive and continued emitting fresh lava sporadically unt
Tofua
thumb|right|Tofua caldera
Nishinoshima
isolated and uninhabited Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean considered part of the Volcano Islands and administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara subdistrict
Sarychev Peak
volcano
Augustine Volcano
stratovolcano in Alaska
Karymsky
mountain in Russia
Volcán Masaya
active volcano in Nicaragua
Mount Mazama
mountain in Oregon, USA
Narcondam Island
island in India
Kharimkotan
Harimkotan (; ; alternatively , ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located from Onekotan near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from 'village of many Cardiocrinum.'
Farallon de Pajaros
uninhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands
Kverkfjöll
thumb|Glacier cave near Kverkfjöll. thumb|Warning text about the caves.
Mount Adatara
mountain in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Mount Okmok
mountain in United States of America
Ulawun
Ulawun is a basaltic and andesitic stratovolcano in West New Britain Province, on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Guguan
Guguan is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is currently uninhabited. Guguan is located south from Alamagan and north from Saipan, and is northeast from Sarigan.
Ketoy
Ketoy (or Ketoi) (; Japanese 計吐夷島; Ketoi-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "skeleton" or "bad".
Raikoke
Raikoke (, ), also spelled Raykoke, is, as of 2019, a Russian uninhabited volcanic island near the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, distant from the island of Matua. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from the Hokkaido Ainu word "hellmouth".
Akademia Nauk
Volcano in Russia
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
volcano in Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Tavurvur
Tavurvur is an active stratovolcano near Rabaul, on the island of New Britain, in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on the eastern rim of the larger feature. An eruption of the volcano largely destroyed the nearby town of Rabaul in 1994.
Mount Tokachi
mountain in Biei, Kamifurano and Shintoku, Hokkaido, Japan
Marchena Island
Island in the Galapagos Archipelago in Ecuador
Paulet Island
island in Graham Land, Antarctica
Mount Wrangell
volcano in Alaska, United States
Shiashkotan
alt=Shiashkotan Island|thumb|264x264px|Shiashkotan Island Shiashkotan () (; Shasukotan-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, separated from Ekarma by the Ekarma Strait. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “Konbu village”.
Nabro Volcano
mountain
Mount Ngauruhoe
active volcano in New Zealand
Tori-shima
island in Tokyo, Japan
Brennisteinsalda
The Brennisteinsalda () is a volcano in the south of Iceland. Its height is about 855 m. It is situated near Landmannalaugar and not far from Hekla.
Torfajökull
Torfajökull (Icelandic for "Torfi's glacier"; ) is a rhyolitic stratovolcano, with a large caldera (central volcano) capped by a glacier of the same name and associated with a complex of subglacial volcanoes. Torfajökull last erupted in 1477 and consists of the largest area of silicic extrusive rocks in Iceland. This is now known to be due to a VEI 5 eruption 55,000 years ago.
Mount Pavlof
mountain
Puracé
Puracé is an andesitic stratovolcano located in the Puracé National Natural Park in the Cauca Department, Colombia. It is part of the North Volcanic Zone of the Andean Volcanic Belt. The volcano is located at the intersection of the Coconucos and Morras Faults.
Aracar
Aracar is a large conical stratovolcano in northwestern Argentina, just east of the Chilean border. It has a main summit crater about in diameter and sometimes contains crater lakes and a secondary crater. The volcano has formed, starting during the Pliocene, on top of a lava platform and an older basement. Constructed on a base with an altitude of , it covers a surface area of and has a volume of . The only observed volcanic activity was a possible steam or ash plume on March 28, 1993, seen from the village of Tolar Grande about southeast of the volcano, but with no evidence of deformation of
Telica
Volcano
Mount Usu
mountain in Hokkaido, Japan
Kuchinoerabu Island
, is one of the Satsunan Islands, usually classed with the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, in area, has a population of 147. The island can only be reached by boat as it has no airport. There is regular ferry service with Yakushima, which is about 15 km to the east. Travel time is approximately 1 hour. The islanders are dependent mainly on fishing, agriculture and seasonal tourism. The entire island is within the borders of the Kirishima-Yaku National Park.
Mount Bisoke
a volcano located on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
Cerro Azul
mountain in Curicó Province, Chile
Nii-jima
is a volcanic Japanese island administered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands, group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago, and is located approximately south of Tōkyō and south of Shimoda Shizuoka Prefecture. The island is the larger inhabited component of the village of Niijima Village, Ōshima Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis, which also contains the neighboring island of Shikine-jima and the smaller, uninhabited Jinai-tō. Nii-jima is also within the boundaries of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Jabal al-Tair Island
volcano island in Red Sea
Rasshua
Rasshua (, ) is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, from Ushishir and southwest of Matua. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for “fur coat”, "Rushu o a" (ルシュ・オ・ア), or "abundant furs", "Rushi o a" (ルシ・オ・ア).