Kolumbo
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Kolumbo () is an active submarine volcano in the Aegean Sea in Greece, about northeast of Cape Kolumbo, Santorini (Thira) island. The largest of a line of about twenty submarine volcanic cones extending to the northeast from Santorini, it is about in diameter with a crater across. It was first noticed by humans when it breached the sea surface in 1649–1650. The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program treats it as part of the Santorini volcano, though at least one source maintains that it is a separate magmatic system.
Key facts
- Seamount.name
- Kolumbo
- Seamount.map
- Kolumbo Map.jpg
- Seamount.location
- Aegean Sea
- Seamount.country
- Greece
- Seamount.type
- Submarine volcano
- Seamount.volcanic_group
- South Aegean Volcanic Arc
- Seamount.last_eruption
- 1650
- Seamount.discovered
- 1649
- Seamount.photo
- Kolumbo crater NOAA.jpg
- Seamount.photo_caption
- The Kolumbo crater
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- Elevation
- -10
- Image
- Kolumbo crater NOAA.jpg
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- Kolumbo
- native label
- Κολούμπο
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Kolumbo () is an active submarine volcano in the Aegean Sea in Greece, about northeast of Cape Kolumbo, Santorini (Thira) island. The largest of a line of about twenty submarine volcanic cones extending to the northeast from Santorini, it is about in diameter with a crater across. It was first noticed by humans when it breached the sea surface in 1649–1650. The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program treats it as part of the Santorini volcano, though at least one source maintains that it is a separate magmatic system.
==History== An eruption in 1650, which occurred when the accumulating cone reached the surface, sent pyroclastic flows across the sea surface to the shores and slopes of Santorini, where about seventy people and many animals died. A small ring of white pumice that formed was rapidly eroded away by wave action. The volcano collapsed into its caldera, triggering a tsunami that caused damage on nearby islands up to distant. The highest parts of the crater rim are now about below sea level.
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