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List of volcanoes in Australia; List of volcanoes in Fiji; List of volcanoes in French Polynesia; List of volcanoes in French Southern and Antarctic Lands; List of volcanoes in New Zealand; List of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean; List of volcanoes in Papua New Guinea; List of volcanoes in Solomon Islands; List of volcanoes in South Sandwich Islands
A list of active and extinct submarine volcanoes and seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. [1] Almost all are not well-mapped and many may not have been identified at all. Most are unnamed and unexplored.
Volcanoes of the Indian Ocean (9 C, 5 P) M. Volcanoes of the Mediterranean Sea (4 C, 5 P) P. Volcanoes of the Pacific Ocean (26 C, 31 P) S. Volcanoes of the Southern ...
The total number of submarine volcanoes is estimated to be over one million (most are now extinct) of which some 75,000 rise more than 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) above the seabed. [1] Only 119 submarine volcanoes in Earth's oceans and seas are known to have erupted during the last 11,700 years. [2] [3]
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Bowie Seamount-24-79: 18,000 BC Adams Seamount-59-194: 50 BCE Axial Seamount-1410: 4626: 1998
Mountain Metres Feet Location and Notes Ojos del Salado: 6,893: 22,615: Argentina/Chile – highest dormant volcano on Earth: Monte Pissis: 6,793: 22,287: Argentina Nevado Tres Cruces
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The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a series of volcanoes and seamounts extending about 6,200 km (3,900 mi) across the Pacific Ocean. [ n 1 ] The chain was produced by the movement of the ocean crust over the HawaiĘ»i hotspot , an upwelling of hot rock from the Earth's mantle .