Erta Ale

Erta Ale is a continuously active shield volcano in the of northeastern , which is itself part of the wider Afar Triangle. The volcano is located in the , an area on the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea that is below sea level.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 612 metres
  • Description: volcano in Ethiopia
  • Also known as: “Erta’ale”, “Irta’ale Isate Gemora YeFelek’ebet Gudgwad”, “Irta’Ale Isate Gomera”, “Irta’ālē Isate Gomera”, “Ummuna”, and “Vulcano Ertale”

Erta Ale

Latitude
13.60303° or 13° 36′ 11″ north
Longitude
40.66341° or 40° 39′ 48″ east
Elevation
612 metres (2,008 feet)
Open location code
7H52JM37+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 319176124
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
334073
Wiki­data ID
Q903
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Veps—“Erta Ale” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إرتا أليه”
  • Armenian: “Էրտա Ալե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Erta Ale”
  • Basque: “Erta Ale”
  • Belarusian: “Эрта Але”
  • Bulgarian: “Ерта Але”
  • Catalan: “Erta Ale”
  • Cebuano: “Irta’ālē Isate Gemora YeFelek’ebet Gudgwad”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێرتا ئالێ”
  • Chinese: “尔塔阿雷火山”
  • Chinese: “爾塔阿雷火山”
  • Croatian: “Erta Ale”
  • Czech: “Erta Ale”
  • Danish: “Erta Ale”
  • Dutch: “Erta Ale”
  • Finnish: “Erta Ale”
  • French: “Erta Ale”
  • Galician: “Erta Ale”
  • German: “Erta Ale”
  • Greek: “Έρτα Άλε”
  • Hausa: “Erta Ale”
  • Hebrew: “ארטה אלה”
  • Hindi: “इर्टा एले”
  • Hungarian: “Erta Ale”
  • Indonesian: “Erta Ale”
  • Italian: “Erta Ale”
  • Japanese: “エルタ・アレ”
  • Korean: “에르타 알레산”
  • Korean: “에트라 에일 산”
  • Lithuanian: “Erta Alė”
  • Macedonian: “Ерта Але”
  • Nepali: “एर्टा‌ एल”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Erta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Erta Ale”
  • Norwegian: “Erta Ale”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Erta Ale”
  • Persian: “ارتا آلی”
  • Polish: “Erta Ale”
  • Portuguese: “Erta Ale”
  • Romanian: “Erta Ale”
  • Russian: “Эртале”
  • Serbian: “Ерта Але”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Erta Ale”
  • Slovak: “Irta’ale Isatä Gämora”
  • Slovenian: “Erta Ale”
  • Spanish: “Erta Ale”
  • Spanish: “Volcán Erta Ale”
  • Swedish: “Erta Ale”
  • Tamil: “எர்டா ஏல்”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเอร์ทาเล”
  • Turkish: “Erta Ale”
  • Twi: “Erta Ale”
  • Ukrainian: “Ерта-Але”
  • Veps: “Ertale”
  • “Erta Ale”

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