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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Volcano with an elevation of -20 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Kavachi submarine volcano”, “Kavachi Submarine Volcano”, “Kavachi volcano”, “Kavachi’s oven”, “Kovachi”, “Rejo te Kavachi”, “Sharkcano”, “The Kavachi Volcano”, and “カバチ島”
Kavachi
- Categories: submarine volcano and landform
- Location: Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Oceania
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Latitude
-8.99369° or 8° 59′ 37″ south
Longitude
157.9724° or 157° 58′ 21″ east
Elevation
-20 metres (-66 feet)
Open location code
6R3V2X4C+GX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kavachi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كافاشي”
- Basque: “Kavachi”
- Catalan: “Kavachi”
- Czech: “Kavachi”
- Dutch: “Kavachi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كافاشى”
- French: “Kavachi”
- German: “Kavachi”
- Greek: “Καβάτσι”
- 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”
- “Kavachi”
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