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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Saunders Island and Ashen Hills.
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Mount Michael

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Latitude
-57.80379° or 57° 48′ 14″ south
Longitude
-26.49168° or 26° 29′ 30″ west
Open location code
39JM5GW5+F8
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Open­Street­Map 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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