Mount Meakan
Mount Meakan | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,499 m (4,918 ft) |
Listing | List of mountains and hills of Japan by height List of volcanoes in Japan 100 Famous Japanese Mountains |
Coordinates | 43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°E |
Naming | |
Native name | |
Geography | |
Location | Hokkaidō, Japan |
Parent range | Akan Volcanic Complex |
Topo map | Geographical Survey Institute 25000:1 25000:1 オンネト 50000:1 50000:1 |
Geology | |
Age of rock | Late Pleistocene-Holocene |
Mountain type | stratovolcano |
Volcanic arc/belt | Kurile arc |
Last eruption | November 2008 |
Mount Meakan (
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Akan Caldera
Me-Akan (bottom left)
O-Akan (center right) -
Seen from the NE
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March 2006 eruption
Geography[edit]
There are two ponds in the crater,
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Hunt, Paul (1988). "32: Climbing an Active Volcano: Meakan-dake (
雌阿寒岳 )". Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails (First ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5.
External links[edit]
- Meakandake - Japan Meteorological Agency (in Japanese)
- "Meakandake: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan" (PDF). - Japan Meteorological Agency
- Meakan Dake - Geological Survey of Japan
- "Akan". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
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