Vulcano
Vulcano is one of the Aeolian Islands. Famous for its mud baths, the island literally smells like rotten eggs. Odor or no odor, it's an interesting place to visit for the traveler interested in geology and hiking, not to mention soaking in some rays on the beaches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: small volcanic island north of Sicily
- Also known as: “Isola di Vulcano”
- Historically known as: “Volcano Island”
Photo: Denis Barthel, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vulcano and Scoglio delle Sirene.
Vulcano
Volcano
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vulcano is a complex stratovolcano in the Mediterranean. It is the eponymous volcanic complex comprising the island of Vulcano in the Aeolian archipelago.
Vulcano
- Categories: mountain, stratovolcano, volcanic island, complex volcano, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Messina, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.3995° or 38° 23′ 58″ northLongitude
14.9716° or 14° 58′ 18″ eastPopulation
715Elevation
272 metres (892 feet)Open location code
8FCP9XXC+QJOpenStreetMap ID
way 300808281OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Vulcano” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة البركان”
- Arabic: “فولكانو”
- Asturian: “islla Vulcano”
- Asturian: “Isola di Vulcano”
- Basque: “Vulcano”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Вулкана”
- Belarusian: “Вулкана”
- Belarusian: “Вулькана”
- Breton: “Vulcano”
- Bulgarian: “Вулкано”
- Catalan: “Vulcano”
- Cebuano: “Isola Vulcano”
- Chinese: “武尔卡诺岛”
- Chinese: “武爾卡諾島”
- Corsican: “Vulcanu”
- Croatian: “Vulcano”
- Czech: “Vulcano”
- Danish: “Vulcano”
- Dutch: “Vulcano”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فولكانو”
- Esperanto: “Vulcano”
- Estonian: “Vulcano”
- Finnish: “Vulcano”
- French: “Vulcanello”
- French: “Vulcano”
- Galician: “Illa Vulcano”
- Georgian: “ვულკანო”
- German: “Vulcano”
- Greek: “Βουλκάνο”
- Greek: “Θέρμεσσα”
- Hebrew: “וולקנו”
- Hungarian: “Vulcano”
- Indonesian: “Vurcanu”
- Irish: “Vulcano”
- Italian: “isola di Vulcano”
- Italian: “Isola di Vulcano”
- Italian: “Isola Vulcano”
- Italian: “Vulcano”
- Japanese: “ヴルカーノ島”
- Korean: “불카노 산”
- Korean: “불카노섬”
- Ladin: “Vulcano”
- Latin: “Hiera”
- Latin: “Thermessa”
- Latin: “Volcanus”
- Latin: “Vulcanus”
- Latvian: “Vulkano sala”
- Latvian: “Vulkāno”
- Lithuanian: “Vulkanas”
- Lithuanian: “Vulkano”
- Macedonian: “Вулкано”
- Maltese: “Vulcano”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vulcano”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vulcano”
- Norwegian: “Vulcano”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Isola di Vulcano”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vulcanello”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vulcano”
- Persian: “وولکانو”
- Polish: “Vulcano”
- Portuguese: “Vulcano (vulcão da Sicília)”
- Portuguese: “Vulcano”
- Romanian: “Vulcano”
- Russian: “Вулькано”
- Russian: “Гиера”
- Russian: “Фермисса”
- Scots: “Vulcano”
- Serbian: “Вулкано”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vulcano”
- Sicilian: “Vulcanu”
- Sicilian: “Vurcanu”
- Slovak: “Vulcano”
- Slovenian: “Vulcano”
- Spanish: “Isla Vulcano”
- Spanish: “Vulcanello”
- Spanish: “Vulcano”
- Swedish: “Vulcano”
- Turkish: “isola di Vulcano”
- Turkish: “Isola di Vulcano”
- Turkish: “Vulcano Adası”
- Turkish: “Vulcano”
- Ukrainian: “Вулькано”
- Venetian: “isola de Vulcano”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Vulcano”. Photo: Brisk g, CC0.