List of volcanoes in Tonga
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- See also: List of volcanoes
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Tonga.
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
ʻAta | 382 | 1253 | - | |
Curacoa | -33 | -108 | 1979 | |
Fonua foʻou | -17 | -56 | 1936 | |
Fonualei | 180 | 591 | 1957 | |
Home Reef | -2 | -7 | 2006 | |
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai | 149 | 489 | 1988 | |
Kao | 1030 | 3379 | Holocene | |
Late | 540 | 1772 | 1854 | |
Metis Shoal | 43 | 141 | 1995 | |
Niuafoʻou | 260 | 853 | 1985 | |
Niuatoputapu[verification needed] | 157 | 515 | 3 million years ago | |
Tafahi | 560 | 1837 | Holocene | |
Tofua | 515 | 1690 | 1960 | |
Unnamed (1) | -13 | -43 | 1999 | |
Unnamed (2) | -500 | -1640 | 1932 | |
Unnamed (3) | -300 | -984 | 2001 |
[edit] References
- Siebert L, Simkin T (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3, (http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/).
- Peate, David W.; Kokfelt, Thomas F., Hawkesworth, Chris J., van Calsteren, Peter W., Hergt, Janet M. and Pearce, Julian A. (2001). "U-series Isotope Data on Lau Basin Glasses: the Role of Subduction-related Fluids during Melt Generation in Back-arc Basins". Journal of Petrology 42 (8): 1449–1470. doi: . See especially Figure 1.
- D. Stanley; South Pacific handbook
- Government of Tonga, official 1962 land survey