GVP volcano 234020 · no holder yet
Kerguelen Islands
Kerguelen Islands is a 1,840 m stratovolcano in France, with no dated eruption on record.
- Type
- Stratovolcano(es) (composite landform)
- Summit
- 1,840 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachyandesite / Basaltic Trachyandesite
- Setting
- Intraplate, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- no dated eruption
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 0 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 49.58°S 69.50°E · France
- Region
- Kerguelen Hotspot Volcano Group, Somalian-Antarctic Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 234020
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).