GVP volcano 390140 · no holder yet
Protector Seamounts
Protector Seamounts is a submarine volcanic field 55 m under the Atlantic, last erupted in 1962.
- Type
- Volcanic field (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 55 m below sea level
- Rock
- Rhyolite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1962
- Largest known
- VEI 1, gentle, 1962
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 55.91°S 28.17°W · The Atlantic
- Region
- South Sandwich Volcanic Arc, Antarctic-Scotia Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 390140
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).