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Mount Fuji Stromboli Is Located Mount Fuji Is Located in Italy Stromboli Mount Fuji Stromboli is located Mount Fuji is located in Italy. in Japan. Its highest point is Its highest point is 924m high. Volcanoes Volcanoes 3776m high. The volcano has erupted Fuji last erupted in 1707. throughout the 20th century. This volcano is the highest volcano, it has the highest As long as there are peak in Japan and is historical records, considered one of the three Stromboli has been holy mountains. constantly active. Mount Fuji is an important It is famous for its element in Japanese art. normally small, but regular explosions. At night its eruptions Did You Know...? are visible from far More than 200 000 away so it is known as Did You Know...? Stromboli has an people climb to the the "Lighthouse of the eruption cycle of 20 top of the Mount Mediterranean". to 30 minutes. Fuji every year. Photo courtesy of giopuo, flrnt, island of volcanoes (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of Manish Prabhune, midorisyu (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Ojos del Mauna Loa Mauna Loa is one of five Salado volcanoes that form the Ojos del Salado Island of Hawaii (the US Volcanoes is located on the Volcanoes state) in the Pacific Ocean. Argentina-Chile border. Its highest point is Its highest point is 4170m high. 6893m high. Mauna Loa rises from Nevados Ojos del Salado is the sea floor, and its the world's highest active height from its base to its volcano. summit is 9170m. This is greater than the height of It has two summit peaks of Mount Everest. the same height. It last erupted in 1984 It last erupted around and since the 1840s it has 1300 years ago. Did You Know...? erupted at least 30 times. It is the world's We don't know if it will It erupts every largest active erupt again, if at all, as Did You Know...? In the daytime it 5 to 30 years. volcano if you we don't have a record of can get to 17oC and include the portion eruptions to work out the o Mauna Loa means 'long drop to -15 C at that lies beneath eruption cycle. mountain' in Hawaiian. night! the sea! Photo courtesy of giopuo, flrnt, island of volcanoes (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of skyseeker, LaurenBacon (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Mount Mount Vesuvius Pinatubo Mount Vesuvius is located Mount Pinatubo is located in Italy. in the Philippines. Volcanoes Volcanoes Its highest point is Its highest point is 1486m 1281m high. high. Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. It last erupted in 1993. The most famous eruption Its eruption on 15th June happened in AD79. Mount 1991 was one of the Vesuvius erupted for more largest volcanic eruptions than 24 hours, completely of the 20th century. It burying the nearby city of Pompeii. reduced the summit height from 1745m to 1486m. Over 3 million people live in the immediate area of Mount Vesuvius. More people live dangerously close to it Did You Know...? than to any other volcano Did You Know...? The eruption in the world. It has erupted over formed a crater 50 times during the lake called last 2000 years. Lake Pinatubo. Photo courtesy of mitchyk, mcosta1973 (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video, Pia Obieta (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Mount Mount St. Helens Tambora Mount St. Helens is located Mount Tambora is located in the United States. in Indonesia. Volcanoes Volcanoes Its highest point is Its highest point is 2549m high. 2850m high. It last erupted in 2008. It last erupted in 1967. Before that, an eruption in On 10th of April 1815, 2005 created an 11 000m Tambora produced the plume of ash and steam. largest eruption known on The volcanic eruption the planet during the past caused by this volcano on 10 000 years. May 18th 1980 destroyed 250 homes and 185 miles of highway. Did You Know...? After the 1815 Did You Know...? eruption, global Mount St. Helens is fairly young because it formed temperatures only 40 000 – 50 000 years ago. decreased. Photo courtesy of mitchyk, mcosta1973 (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of Jialiang Gao, paulzpicz, felixdance (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Mount Etna Taal Mount Etna is located in Volcano Sicily, Italy. Taal Volcano is located in Its highest point is the north of the Philippines, Volcanoes 3330m high. Asia. Volcanoes It is Europe's highest and Its highest point is most active volcano. 311m high. It last erupted in 2018. It is the second most active volcano in the Philippines Mount Etna has the with 33 historical longest recorded history eruptions. of eruptions; its eruptions have been documented It last erupted in 1977 and since 1500 BC. usually erupts every 1 to 30 years. Mount Etna is popular with tourists, who climb Did You Know...? or ski on the mountain. Did You Know...? The word 'volcano' Local people often call It is largely filled Etna ‘Mongibello’ meaning comes from the Roman God of by Lake Taal, which ‘beautiful mountain’ in metalwork and fire, only lies 3m above Italian. Vulcan. sea level! Photo courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video, gnuckx (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of TheCoffee (Mike Gonzalez), therealbrute, Maliz Ong (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Katla Kilauea Katla is located in Iceland. Kilauea is located on the Its highest point is Island of Hawaii (the US 1512m high. state) in the Pacific Ocean. Volcanoes Its highest point is Volcanoes It has an eruption cycle of 1222m high. 50 to 100 years. It has been erupting Katla is one of Iceland's continuously since 1983. In most dangerous volcanoes. this period, it has destroyed Eruptions cause flooding more than 200 houses, as it is located under an produced lava covering icecap. 100km2, and has created a It has not erupted violently new coastline on the island. for 98 years, although Its last eruption occurred in there may have been small May 2018. eruptions that did not Kilauea is the youngest and break the ice cover. most active Hawaiian shield Did You Know...? The last eruption to Did You Know...? volcano above sea level. 20 eruptions have Kilauea covers break through the ice cap been documented Mount Kilauea Volcano is the about 14% of occurred in 1918. between 930 home of Pele, the Hawaiian the land area of and 1918. volcano goddess. Big Island. Photo courtesy of fridgeirsson (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of Songster09, U.S. Geological Survey (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Mount Mount Merapi Rainier Mount Rainier is located in Mount Merapi is located in the United States. the south of Indonesia. Volcanoes Volcanoes Its highest point is 4392m Its highest point is high. 2968m high. It is Washington's highest It last erupted on 11th May mountain. 2018 and erupts every few years. It is a large stratovolcano and there are more than 20 It is the most active major glaciers on it. volcano in Indonesia and has erupted It last erupted in 1894. regularly since 1548. Mount Merapi is considered Did You Know...? sacred by local people who Mount Rainier believe a supernatural has many small kingdom exists atop Merapi. Did You Know...? high-frequency Every year a priest climbs to Mount Merapi earthquakes, often the top to make an offering. means 'Mountain of occurring on a Fire'. daily basis. Photo courtesy of smagdali, coolinsights (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of brewbooks, Wanna Be Creative (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Santa Krakatoa Maria Krakatoa is located in Indonesia. Santa Maria is located in Guatemala, just south Its highest point is 813m. Volcanoes Volcanoes of Mexico. It last erupted on 22nd Its highest point is December 2018. 3772m high. The famous eruption of It has been continuously 1883 generated the loudest erupting since 1922 and its sound ever reported in most recent eruption was on history. It was heard as far 22nd August 2013. away as Perth in Australia (around 1930 miles away). The eruption of Santa Maria Volcano in 1902 was one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century and one of the five biggest eruptions of Did You Know...? the past 200-300 years. Did You Know...? Its currently active The 1883 eruption dome is called destroyed two Caliente ('hot' thirds of the island in Spanish). of Krakatoa. Photo courtesy of Alefarfan, nmarritz, CHeitz (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution Photo courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video, buitenzorger (@flickr.com) - granted under creative commons licence - attribution visit twinkl.com visit twinkl.com Cotopaxi Mount Ruiz Cotopaxi is located in Mount Ruiz is also known central Ecuador. as Nevado Del Ruiz and is located in central Colombia. The highest point is 5911m Volcanoes high making it one of the Volcanoes Its summit stands at 5279m world’s highest volcanoes. tall Cotopaxi last erupted in Eruptions have been August 2015 but its most infrequent but destructive. recent large eruption An eruption on 13th occurred in 1904. November 1985 caused a mud flow that killed The upper part of the thousands of people.
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