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The seamount is a submarine volcano approximately 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Hawaiʻi. It may eventually breach sea level and become the newest Hawaiian island. [2] Kīlauea: Big Island: 2021–ongoing (active) [10: 300,000–600,000 [11]
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.It is composed of the Hawaiian ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts: together they form a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows, banks and reefs ...
Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaiʻi is the highest peak in the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi and the entire Pacific Ocean.. The Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi 13 major mountain peaks [a] with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.
Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount [6] (previously known as Lōʻihi) is an active submarine volcano about 22 mi (35 km) off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaii. [7] The top of the seamount is about 3,200 ft (975 m) below sea level. This seamount is on the flank of Mauna Loa, the largest active subaerial shield volcano on Earth.
The Hawaiʻi hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located near the namesake Hawaiian Islands, in the northern Pacific Ocean.One of the best known and intensively studied hotspots in the world, [1] [2] the Hawaii plume is responsible for the creation of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, a 6,200-kilometer (3,900 mi) mostly undersea volcanic mountain range.
Although Meiji is the oldest extant seamount in the Hawaii-Emperor chain, the question of whether there were older seamounts in the chain which have already been subducted into the trench remains open, and is the subject of ongoing scientific research.
Sibuyan Island: Mount Guiting-Guiting: 2058 m 6752 ft 445: 0.173 Philippines: 72: Unalaska Island: Mount Makushin: 2036 m 6680 ft 2720: 0.0692 Alaska United States: 73: São Tomé: Pico de São Tomé: 2024 m 6640 ft 859: 0.122 São Tomé and Príncipe: 74: Coulman Island: Mount Hawkes: 2000 m 6600 ft 319: 0.198 Antarctica claimed by New Zealand ...
By comparison, from sea floor to peak, Mauna Kea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is the tallest shield volcano on Earth, but it is nowhere near as massive as Pūhāhonu. Another volcano on the Big Island is Mauna Loa ; a 2013 study estimates Mauna Loa's volume at 83,000 cubic kilometres (20,000 cu mi) which is believed to be an overestimate.