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mount melbourn

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Melbourne is a massive stratovolcano that makes up the projection of the coast between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land of Antarctica. Discovered in 1841 by ...

mount morning

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Morning is a dome-shaped stratovolcano standing WSW of Mount Discovery and east of Koettlitz Glacier in Victoria Land. Discovered by the British National Antarctic ...

Acatenango

Natural environment; Volcano

Acatenango, along with its twin volcano to the south, Volcan Fuego, overlooks the historic former capital city of Antigua Guatemala. Acatenango, which has two principal summits, ...

Agua

Natural environment; Volcano

At 3,760 meters, Agua volcano towers more than 3,500 meters above the Pacific coastal plain to the south and 2,000 meters above the Guatemalan highlands to the north. The volcano ...

Fuego

Natural environment; Volcano

Volcan Fuego, one of Central America's most active volcanoes, is one of three large stratovolcanoes overlooking Guatemala's former capital, Antigua. The scarp of an older ...

Pacaya

Natural environment; Volcano

Pacaya sits 30 kilometers south of the center of Guatemala City, an urban center with a population of more than 1.5 million. A 1989 eruption produced a 4.5-kilometer-tall eruption ...

Santa María and Santiaguito

Natural environment; Volcano

One of the largest eruptions of the 20th century occurred at Santa María in 1902. The eruption left a 700 x 1,000 meter crater in the stratovolcano's southwest flank. Growth of a ...