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Mount Unzen

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Also known as Unzen-dake

mountain in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Key facts

Elevation
1,473 m (4,833 ft)
Prominence
1,465 m (4,806 ft)
Listing
Ribu
Rock age
Oldest 500 kyr
Mountain type
Complex stratovolcano
Last eruption
February to May 1996

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Wikidata facts

Named after
onsen
Country
Japan
Located in
Unzen
Elevation
1486
Image
Unzen pyroclastic and lahar deposits.jpg
Significant event
1991 eruption of Mount Unzen
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Commons category
Mount Unzen
located in/on physical feature
Shimabara Peninsula
native label
雲仙岳
time period
Pleistocene
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Encyclopedic overview

Relief map of Mount Unzen

Mount Unzen (雲仙岳, Unzen-dake) is an active stratovolcano of several overlapping small, volcanic cones, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Unzen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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