Earth:Mount Meakan
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Short description: Active stratovolcano on the island of Hokkaido, Japan
| Mount Meakan | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,499 m (4,918 ft) |
| Listing | List of mountains and hills of Japan by height List of volcanoes in Japan 100 Famous Japanese Mountains |
| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°E |
| Naming | |
| Native name | |
| Geography | |
  Mount Meakan Location of Mount Meakan in Hokkaidō, Japan. | |
| Location | Hokkaidō, Japan |
| Parent range | Akan Volcanic Complex |
| Topo map | Geographical Survey Institute 25000:1 雌阿寒岳 25000:1 オンネト 50000:1 阿寒湖 50000:1 上足寄 |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Late Pleistocene-Holocene |
| Mountain type | stratovolcano |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Kurile arc |
| Last eruption | November 2008 |
Mount Meakan (雌阿寒岳 Meakan-dake) is an active stratovolcano located in Akan National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan . It is the tallest mountain in the Akan Volcanic Complex.[1] The volcano consists of nine overlapping cones that grew out of the Akan caldera, on the shores of Lake Akan. Mount Meakan has a triple crater at its summit. According to its name and local legend, Mount Meakan is the female counterpart to Mount Oakan on the other side of Lake Akan.[1]
Akan Caldera
Me-Akan (bottom left)
O-Akan (center right)
Seen from the NE
March 2006 eruption
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Geography
There are two ponds in the crater, 赤沼 (Sekinuma, Red Pond) and 青沼 (Aonuma, Blue Pond).
See also
- List of volcanoes in Japan
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hunt, Paul (1988). "32: Climbing an Active Volcano: Meakan-dake (雌阿寒岳)". Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails (First ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5.
External links
- Meakandake - Japan Meteorological Agency (in Japanese)
- "Meakandake: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan". http://www.data.jma.go.jp/svd/vois/data/tokyo/STOCK/souran_eng/volcanoes/007_meakandake.pdf. - Japan Meteorological Agency
- Meakan Dake - Geological Survey of Japan
- "Akan". Smithsonian Institution. https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=285070.
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