Mount Melbourne
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| Mount Melbourne | |
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 Mt. Melbourne seen from the ice-covered Ross Sea. |
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| Elevation | 2,732 metres (8,963 feet) |
| Location | Victoria Land, Antarctica |
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| Type | Stratovolcano |
| Age of rock | Unknown |
| Last eruption | 1750 ± 100 years |
Mount Melbourne is a massive volcanic cone of great beauty, surmounting the projection of the coast between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land of Antarctica.
Discovered in 1841 by James Clark Ross, who named it for Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister when the expedition was being planned.
Mt. Melbourne is an active volcano and is undissected by glaciation. Many young cones dot the flanks and the volcano may have erupted as recently as during the 18-19th Century. Fumarolic activity is found on the southern rim of the summit crater and along a NNE-SSW line cutting through the summit region.
[edit] Sources
- Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: Mount Melbourne
- LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union, 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
- Amar Andalkar's Ski Mountaineering and Climbing Site. Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond (1997–2007). Retrieved on 2005-01-14.
