Kavachi
Kavachi is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the south-west Pacific Ocean. Located south of Vangunu Island in the Solomon Islands, it is named after a sea god of the New Georgia Group islanders and is also referred to locally as Rejo te Kavachi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of -20 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Kavachi submarine volcano”, “Kavachi Submarine Volcano”, “Kavachi volcano”, “Kavachi’s oven”, “Sharkcano”, and “The Kavachi Volcano”
Kavachi
- Categories: submarine volcano and landform
- Location: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.99369° or 8° 59′ 37″ southLongitude
157.9724° or 157° 58′ 21″ eastElevation
-20 metres (-66 feet)Open location code
6R3V2X4C+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 8019176277OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kavachi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كافاشي”
- Catalan: “Kavachi”
- Dutch: “Kavachi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كافاشى”
- French: “Kavachi”
- French: “Kovachi”
- French: “Rejo te Kavachi”
- German: “Kavachi”
- Greek: “Καβάτσι”
- Japanese: “カバチ島”
- Japanese: “カバチ海底火山”
- Korean: “카바치”
- Lithuanian: “Kavačis”
- Persian: “کاواچی”
- Polish: “Kavachi”
- Portuguese: “Kavachi”
- Russian: “Кавачи”
- Spanish: “Kavachi”
- Ukrainian: “Кавачі”
- Urdu: “kavachi island”
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