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1 Mount Baker  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 2914
Lat/Lng : 48.7701 / -121.8164
Mount Baker (Lummi: '; or '), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount (...)
2Mount Lawu  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 3122
Lat/Lng : -7.625 / 111.1917
Mount Lawu, or Gunung Lawu, is a massive compound stratovolcano straddling the border between East Java and Central Java, Indonesia. The north side is deeply eroded and the eastern side contains parasitic crater lakes and parasitic cones. A fumarolic area is located on the south flank at 2,550 m (...)
3 Koryaksky  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 3422
Lat/Lng : 53.3209 / 158.7121
Koryaksky or Koryakskaya Sopka is an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. It lies within sight of Kamchatka Krai's administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Together with neighbouring Avachinsky, it has been designated a Decade Volcano, worthy of particular study (...)
4 Ubinas  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 5361
Lat/Lng : -16.355 / -70.903
Ubinas is a stratovolcano in the Moquegua Region of southern Peru, east of the city of Arequipa. Part of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it is above sea level. The volcano's summit is cut by a wide and deep caldera, which itself contains a smaller crater (...)
5 Lascar (volcano)  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 5558
Lat/Lng : -23.3672 / -67.7281
Lascar is a stratovolcano within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, a volcanic arc that spans the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. It is the most active volcano in the region, with records of eruptions going back to 1848 (...)
6 Cotopaxi  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 5835
Lat/Lng : -0.6801 / -78.438
Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located in the Latacunga canton of Cotopaxi Province, about south of Quito, and northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, in South America. It is the second highest summit in Ecuador, reaching a height of (...)
7 Mount Nyiragongo  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 3442
Lat/Lng : -1.5185 / 29.254
Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda (...)
8 Nemrut (volcano)  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 2349
Lat/Lng : 38.6222 / 42.2468
Nemrut (Sarakn, "Mountain spring") is a dormant volcano in Eastern Turkey, close to Lake Van. The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC. The most powerful eruptions of Nemrut occurred in the Pleistocene (...)
9 Mount Mazama  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 2443
Lat/Lng : 42.9515 / -122.169
Mount Mazama (Giiwas in the Native American language Klamath) is a complex volcano in the Oregon segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range, in the United States, that was destroyed due to a major eruption that took place 7,700 years ago (...)
10 Mount Melbourne  
FeatureType : mountain
Lat/Lng : -74.35 / 164.7
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. It was discovered in 1841 by James Clark Ross, who named it for Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister when the expedition was being planned. (...)
11 Mount Akutan  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 1242
Lat/Lng : 54.1331 / -165.9855
Mount Akutan, officially Akutan Peak, is a stratovolcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Akutan Peak, at , is the highest point on the caldera of the Akutan stratovolcano. Akutan contains a 2 km-wide caldera formed during a major explosive eruption about 1600 years ago (...)
12 Mount Kanaga  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 1274
Lat/Lng : 51.924 / -177.1648
Mount Kanaga is a stratovolcano at the northern tip of Kanaga Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is situated within a caldera, which forms the arcuate Kanaton Ridge south and east of Kanaga. A crater lake occupies part of the SE caldera floor (...)
13 Mount Chiginagak  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 2092
Lat/Lng : 57.1336 / -156.9914
Chiginagak Volcano is a stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula, located about 15 km NW of Chiginagak Bay. (...)
14 Mount Recheshnoi  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 1808
Lat/Lng : 53.1567 / -168.5389
Mount Recheshnoi (also spelled Recheschnoi) is a heavily eroded stratovolcano located near the center of the SW lobe of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The northeast flank of Recheshnoi has one of the hottest and most extensive thermal areas in Alaska (...)
15 Bridgeman Island (South Shetland Islands)  
FeatureType : isle
Lat/Lng : -62.0667 / -56.7333
Bridgeman Island or Bridgemans's Island or Bridgman Island or Helena Island is one of the South Shetland Islands. It is an almost circular, volcanic island marked by steep sides, long and high, lying east of King George Island. Bridgeman Island is located at and has an elevation of (...)
16 Mount Cleveland (Alaska)  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 1693
Lat/Lng : 52.8222 / -169.945
Mount Cleveland (also known as Cleveland Volcano) is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano on the western end of Chuginadak Island, which is part of the Islands of Four Mountains just west of Umnak Island in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Mt (...)
17Niseko Volcanic Group  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 1290
Lat/Lng : 42.875 / 140.6589
Niseko Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of active stratovolcanoes and lava domes situated in Hokkaidō, Japan. The volcanoes are younger than 400,000 years. The last eruption was 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Today Iwaonupuri shows fumarolic activity. (...)
18 Mount Andrus  
FeatureType : mountain
Lat/Lng : -75.8195 / -132.307
Mount Andrus is a shield volcano 3.2 km (2 mi) 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 (...)
19Tipas  
FeatureType : mountain
Elevation : 6638
Lat/Lng : -27.1954 / -68.5605
Cerro Tipas (also known as Cerro Cazadero or Cerro Walther Penck) is a massive complex volcano in the Andes, located in northwestern Argentina. It is just southwest of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world (...)
20Mount Kunyit  
FeatureType : null
Elevation : 602
Lat/Lng : -2.592 / 101.63
Mount Kunyit ("Turmeric Mountain"; also known as Bukit Belerang) is a fumarolic stratovolcano on Sumatra, Indonesia. The summit contains two craters; the uppermost is a crater lake. (...)