swap_horiz Nishino-shima Alternatives

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Diamond Head (Lēahi)

Diamond Head (Lēahi) is a prominent tuff cone located on Oahu, Hawaii. Formed during the Pleistocene epoch approximately...

Iconic Oahu Pleistocene Honolulu Volcanic Series

9.5 Brilliant

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Hunga Tonga

Hunga Tonga is a tuff-cone volcanic island situated within the Southwest Pacific Ocean near Tonga. It’s notable for its...

Holocene Tonga Southwest Pacific Tuff Cone Remnant

9.5 Brilliant

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Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise Peak)

Seongsan Ilchulbong, also known as Sunrise Peak, is a tuff cone located on Jeju Island, South Korea. Formed during the P...

South Korea Unesco Jeju Pleistocene

9.4 Excellent

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Pinnacle Rock, Bartolomé Island

Pinnacle Rock is a Pleistocene-formed tuff cone found on Bartolomé Island, part of Ecuador’s Galapagos Marine Park. The...

Iconic Marine Park Ecuador Galapagos

9.4 Excellent

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Pinnacle Rock (Bartolome Island)

Pinnacle Rock is an eroded remnant of a volcanic tuff cone on Bartolome Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago. Its s...

Ecuador Landmark Galapagos Phreatomagmatic

9.4 Excellent

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Hunga Ha'apai

Hunga Ha’apai is a tuff-cone island situated within the southwest Pacific Ocean near Tonga. It formed as a remnant of a...

Holocene Tonga Southwest Pacific Tuff Cone Remnant

9.3 Excellent

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Molokini Crater

Molokini is a crescent-shaped volcanic tuff cone islet in the Alalakeiki Channel between Maui and Kahoolawe in Hawaii. I...

Hawaii Maui Islet Marine Reserve

9.3 Excellent

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Surtsey

Surtsey is a young, tuff-cone volcanic island formed off Iceland’s southern coast during the Holocene epoch. Its emergen...

Unesco Iceland Holocene Surtseyan

9.1 Excellent

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Lake Rotomahana

Lake Rotomahana is a volcanic crater lake located within the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. It’s notable for its dr...

New Zealand 1886 Taupo Tuff Ring

9.1 Excellent

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Caldeira das Sete Cidades

The Caldeira das Sete Cidades is a large tuff-cone crater located on São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago. Formed...

Portugal Azores Pleistocene Tuff Ring

9.0 Excellent

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Vulcan Island (Taal Lake)

Vulcan Island, also known as Talay, is a volcanic tuff cone situated within Taal Lake in the Philippines. Formed during...

Active Philippines Holocene Taal

8.8 Great

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Capelinhos

Capelinhos is a volcanic tuff cone located on the northwestern coast of Faial Island in the Portuguese Azores. It was fo...

Azores Surtseyan Faial 1957 1958

8.4 Great

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Central Island (Lake Turkana)

Central Island is a volcanic island in Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Formed by volcanic cones and craters within the E...

Lake Active Kenya Phreatomagmatic

8.4 Great

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Kavachi

Kavachi is an active submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands, southwest of Vangunu Island in the western Pacific Ocean....

Pacific Solomon Islands Surtseyan Phreatomagmatic

8.3 Great

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Bogoslof Island

Bogoslof Island is an active volcanic island in Alaska's Aleutian chain, rising from a largely submarine volcano in the...

USA Active Alaska Aleutians

8.0 Great

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Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba

Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba is an active submarine volcano located in the Bonin Islands chain of Japan. During its major eruption...

Submarine Japan Ephemeral Active

7.7 Good

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Myōjin-shō

Myōjin-shō is a submarine volcano located south of Tokyo, Japan, within the Izu-Bonin island arc. The volcano is named a...

Submarine Japan Ephemeral Holocene

7.7 Good

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Myojin-sho

Myojin-sho is an active submarine volcano in the Izu-Ogasawara island arc south of Japan, near the Bayonnaise Rocks. Its...

Submarine Japan Izu Bonin Phreatomagmatic

7.4 Good

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Late'iki (Metis Shoal)

Late'iki, also known as Metis Shoal, is a submarine volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga in the southwest Pacific. Eruptions...

Ephemeral Active Surtseyan Tonga

7.1 Good

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Home Reef

Home Reef is a submarine volcano in the central Tonga island group, located between Metis Shoal and Late Island. Its sha...

Ephemeral Active Surtseyan Tonga

6.8 Fair