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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.