List of volcanoes in Antarctica
Encyclopedia
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Antarctica.
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Mount Andrus Mount Andrus Mount Andrus is a shield volcano 3.2 km SE of Mount Boennighausen in the SE extremity of Ames Range, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1964-68. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Carl H. Andrus, US Navy, medical officer and Officer-in-Charge of Byrd... |
2978 | 9770 | 75°48′S 132°20′W | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Mount Berlin Mount Berlin Mount Berlin is the sixth highest volcano in Antarctica, located 16 km west of Mount Moulton in Marie Byrd Land near the eastern coast of the Ross Sea. It is composed of two coalesced shield volcanoes: Marren Peak and Berlin Crater... |
3478 | 11,411 | 76°03′S 136°00′W | Unknown |
| Mount Bird Mount Bird Mount Bird is a stratovolcano, high, standing about south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird. Shell Glacier and Endeavour Piedmont Glacier... |
1800 | 5900 | 77°16′S 166°44′E | 3.8-4.6 million years ago |
| Bridgeman Island | 240 | 787 | 62°03′S 56°45′W | - |
| Brown Peak (Sturge Island) Brown Peak (Sturge Island) Brown Peak is the highest point of the Balleny Islands. It is situated on the northern part of Sturge Island, near East Antarctica. A stratovolcano, Brown Peak is considered to belong to the Balleny Islands Ranges, a subset of the Wilkes Land Coast Ranges... |
1524 | 5000 | 67°26′S 164°46′E | 2001 |
| Coulman Island Coulman Island Coulman Island is an ice-covered island, composed of several connected shield volcanos in the Ross Sea off Antarctica. The Coulman caldera, wide and deep, can be found on the south end of the island. Emperor penguins inhabit this island. Coulman Island lies within the boundaries of Ross... |
1998 | 6553 | 73°30′S 169°36′E | - |
| Deception Island | 576 | 1890 | 62°58′S 60°39′W | 1987 |
| Mount Discovery Mount Discovery Mount Discovery is a conspicuous, isolated stratovolcano, lying at the head of McMurdo Sound and east of Koettlitz Glacier, overlooking the NW portion of the Ross Ice Shelf... |
2681 | 8796 | 78°18′S 165°00′E | Unknown |
| Mount Erebus Mount Erebus Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost historically active volcano on Earth, the second highest volcano in Antarctica , and the 6th highest ultra mountain on an island. With a summit elevation of , it is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Mount... |
3794 | 12,448 | 77°32′S 167°17′E | 2008 |
| Mount Frakes Mount Frakes Mount Frakes is a prominent shield volcano marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.The mountain was mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lawrence A. Frakes, USARP geologist who worked three summer... |
3654 | 11,998 | 76°48′S 117°42′W | Unknown |
| Gaussberg Gaussberg Gaussberg is an extinct volcanic cone, 370 metres high , fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of the Posadowsky Glacier in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land in Antarctica.... |
370 | 1213 | 66°48′S 89°11′E | |
| Mount Hampton Mount Hampton Mount Hampton is a shield volcano with a circular ice-filled crater occupying much of the summit area. It is the northernmost of the extinct volcanoes which comprise the Executive Committee Range in Marie Byrd Land.... |
3323 | 10,902 | 76°30′S 126°00′W | Unknown |
| Mount Harcourt Mount Harcourt Mount Harcourt is a stratovolcano making up part of the Hallett Peninsula extending into the Ross Sea about south of Mount Erebus, along with three overlapping shield volcanoes. Two dates have been obtained from the volcano's rock, roughly 5.5 and 6.6 million years in age. These samples are... |
1571 | 5153 | 72°24′S 170°6′E | - |
| Hudson Mountains Hudson Mountains The Hudson Mountains is a group of parasitic cones forming nunataks just above the Antarctic ice sheet in west Ellsworth Land. They lie just east of Cranton Bay and Pine Island Bay at the eastern extremity of Amundsen Sea, and are bounded on the north by Cosgrove Ice Shelf and on the south by Pine... |
749 | 2457 | 74°19.8′S 99°25.2′W | Unknown possibly 1985(?) |
| Mount Melbourne Mount Melbourne 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.... |
2732 | 8963 | 74°21′S 164°42′E | 1750 ± 100 years |
| Mount Morning Mount Morning 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 Expedition which named it for the Morning, relief ship to the expedition.... |
2723 | 8934 | 78°30′S 163°30′E | |
| Mount Moulton Mount Moulton Mount Moulton is a broad, ice-covered shield volcano standing 16 km E of Mount Berlin in the Flood Range, Marie Byrd Land.Discovered on aerial flights by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, and named for Richard S... |
3078 | 10,098 | 76°06′S 135°00′W | |
| Mount Murphy Mount Murphy Mount Murphy is a massive, snow-covered and highly eroded shield volcano with steep, rocky slopes. It is directly south of Bear Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land. The mountain is bounded by the Smith, Pope and Haynes Glaciers.... |
2703 | 8868 | 75°18′S 100°45′W | Late Miocene Late Miocene The Late Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch.... |
| Mount Overlord Mount Overlord Mount Overlord is a very large mountain which is an extinct stratovolcano, situated at the northwest limit of Deception Plateau, 50 miles inland from the Ross Sea and just east of the head of Aviator Glacier in Victoria Land. Its assymetrial cone is on the edge of a plateau above Aviator Glacier... |
3395 | 11,142 | 73°12′S 164°36′E | |
| Paulet Island Paulet Island Paulet Island is a circular island about in diameter, lying southeast of Dundee Island, off the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is composed of lava flows capped by a cinder cone with a small summit crater. Geothermal heat keeps parts of the island ice-free, and the youthful... |
353 | 1158 | 63°34.8′S 55°46.2′W | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Penguin Island Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands) Penguin Island is an island, wide by long, which lies close off the south coast of King George Island and marks the eastern side of the entrance to King George Bay in the South Shetland Islands... |
180 | 59 1 | 62°06′S 57°55.8′W | 1905(?) |
| Lars Christensen Peak Lars Christensen Peak Lars Christensen Peak, also known as Lars Christensentoppen, is the highest point in Peter I Island, off the coast of Antarctica.The peak is a shield volcano... |
1640 | 5381 | 68°51′S 90°34.8′W | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| The Pleiades Pleiades (volcano group) The Pleiades is a volcanic group of youthful cones and domes with Mt. Pleiones, a small stratovolcano being the dominant volcano and rising 500 m above the Evans Neve Plateau. Three nested summit craters lie at the top of Mt. Pleiones. Taygete Cone in the Pleiades was dated at 3000 years, making it... |
3040 | 9974 | 72°40.2′S 165°30′E | 1050 BC ± 1000 years |
| Royal Society Volcano Royal Society Volcano The Royal Society Volcano is a large number of basaltic cinder cones and lava flows are located in the Royal Society Range of southern Victoria Land. Most vents are of Quaternary age. More than 50 basaltic vents, ranging from tiny scoria mounds to cinder cones up to 300-m high, occupy the foothills... |
3000 | 9842 | 78°15′S 163°36′E | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Seal Nunataks Seal Nunataks Volcano The Seal Nunataks are a group of 16 nunataks emerging from the Larsen Ice Shelf east of Graham Land, Peninsula. The Seal Nunataks have been described as separate volcanic vents or the remnants of a large shield volcano.... |
368 | 1207 | 65°1.8′S 60°03′W | 1980 |
| Mount Sidley Mount Sidley Mount Sidley is the highest volcano in Antarctica, a member of the Volcanic Seven Summits, with a summit elevation of . It is a massive, mainly snow-covered shield volcano which is the highest and most imposing of the five extinct volcanic mountains that comprise the Executive Committee Range of... |
4181- 4285 |
13,717- 14,058 |
77°06′S 126°06′W | |
| Mount Siple Mount Siple Mount Siple is a potentially active shield volcano, rising to and dominating the northwest part of Siple Island, which is separated from the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land, by the Getz Ice Shelf. Its youthful appearance strongly suggests that it last erupted in Holocene. It is capped by a summit... |
3110 | 10,203 | 73°26′S 126°40′W | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Mount Steere Mount Steere Mount Steere is a prominent shield volcano standing 6.4 km NNW of Mount Frakes in the Crary Mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.... |
3558 | 11,673 | 76°42′S 117°48′W | Unknown |
| Mount Takahe | 3460 | 11,352 | 76°16.8′S 112°04.8′W | 5550 BC |
| Mount Terror Mount Terror (Antarctica) Mount Terror is a large shield volcano that forms the eastern part of Ross Island, Antarctica. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under snow and ice. It is the second largest of the four volcanoes which make up Ross Island and is somewhat overshadowed... |
3230 | 10,597 | 77°31′S 168°32′E | |
| Toney Mountain Toney Mountain Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land... |
3595 | 11,795 | 75°48′S 115°49.8′W | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Unnamed | 2987 | 9797 | 73°27′S 164°34.8′E | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Unnamed | -500 | -1640 | 76°49.8′S 163°00′E | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |
| Unnamed | - | - | 56°15′S 72°10.2′W | 1876 |
| Mount Waesche Mount Waesche Mount Waesche is a large and prominent mountain of volcanic origin, standing immediately SW of Mount Sidley and marking the southern end of the Executive Committee Range in Marie Byrd Land. The feature is snow covered except for rock exposures on the south and southwestern slopes... |
3292 | 10,801 | 77°10.2′S 126°52.8′W | Holocene Holocene The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"... |