Shinmoedake

Also known as Mount Shinmoe

Shinmoedake () is a volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan, and a part of the Mount Kirishima cluster of volcanoes. It is believed to have formed between 7,300 and 25,000 years ago.

Key facts

Mountain.name: Shinmoedake
Mountain.photo: Kirishima Shin-moedake.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption: View of Shinmoedake in July 2008
Mountain.elevation_m: 1700
Mountain.last_eruption: 2025

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: Volcano
Country: Japan
Located in: Kobayashi
Continent: Asia
Elevation: 1420.8
Image: Kirishima Shin-moedake.jpg

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Commons category: Mount Shinmoe
located in protected area: Kirishima-Kinkōwan National Park
mountain range: Mount Kirishima

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Shinmoedake () is a volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan, and a part of the Mount Kirishima cluster of volcanoes. It is believed to have formed between 7,300 and 25,000 years ago.

Eruptions from Shinmoedake have been recorded in 1716, 1717, 1771, 1822, 1959, 1991, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2025. 300px|thumb|right|Caldera viewed from Mount Karakuni

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