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.

Island
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is a crescent-shaped island lying between and in the , a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

Volcano
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The are a ridge of rounded hills of gullied ash terminating in at the southeast end of , South Sandwich Islands.

is a small plain just south of at the north end of , 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

Latitude
-57.80379° or 57° 48′ 14″ south
Longitude
-26.49168° or 26° 29′ 30″ west
Elevation
805 metres (2,641 feet)
Open location code
39JM5GW5+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1826599653
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3426380
Wiki­data ID
Q3321948
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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.