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
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
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- located in/on physical feature
- Shimabara Peninsula
- native label
- 雲仙岳
- time period
- Pleistocene
Sources (2)
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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.