GVP volcano 386020 · no holder yet
Bouvet
Bouvet is a 741 m shield volcano in Norway, last erupted around 50 BCE.
- Type
- Shield
- Summit
- 741 m above sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 50 BCE
- Largest known
- VEI 0, non-explosive, 50 BCE
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 54.41°S 3.35°E · Norway
- Region
- Southern Atlantic Volcano Group, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 386020
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).