Mount Michael
Mount Michael is an active stratovolcano on Saunders Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only a few volcanoes on Earth confirmed to host a persistent lava lake within its summit crater.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saunders Island and Ashen Hills.
Saunders Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Ashen Hills
Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Ashen Hills are a ridge of rounded hills of gullied ash terminating in Nattriss Point at the southeast end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands.
Blackstone Plain
Blackstone Plain is a small plain just south of Harper Point at the north end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands. This lowland feature is made up of dark basaltic lavas and, in 1964, personnel from HMS Protector found it to be the only area of the island free from ice and snow.Mount Michael
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 805 metres
- Description: mountain in the United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-57.80379° or 57° 48′ 14″ southLongitude
-26.49168° or 26° 29′ 30″ westElevation
805 metres (2,641 feet)Open location code
39JM5GW5+F8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1826599653OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Mount Michael” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “mont Michael”
- Cebuano: “Mount Michael (bukid sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Michael”
- Chinese: “邁克爾山”
- Dutch: “Mount Michael”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت مايكل”
- French: “mont Michael”
- French: “Mont Michael”
- French: “Mount Michael”
- German: “Mount Michael”
- Hebrew: “הר מייקל”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Michael”
- Ladin: “Mount Michael”
- Spanish: “Monte Miguel”
- Swedish: “Mount Michael (berg i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Mount Michael”
- Ukrainian: “Міхаель”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Michael”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.