Volcanoes

Places in this collection

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  Entry № 003

  Aogashima

  Around 170 people living inside an active double caldera, cooking with volcanic steam, on an island the ferry usually cannot reach.

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  Entry № 022

  Fernandina

  The youngest Galápagos island: no introduced species ever, an active volcano, the biggest marine iguanas — and a tortoise that hid for 113 years.

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  Entry № 029

  Pico

  Portugal's highest mountain in the mid-Atlantic, with UNESCO vineyards walled in black lava and whales off the old whaling coast.

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  Entry № 051

  Cirque de Mafate

  Around eight hundred people live inside a collapsed volcano with no road — everything they own arrived on a back or under a helicopter.

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  Entry № 054

  Chã das Caldeiras

  A village farming inside an active crater, rebuilt on the lava that buried it in 2014 because the state said not to.

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  Entry № 063

  Tongariro

  Three sacred volcanoes given to the Crown in 1887 to stop them being sold — and the first cultural landscape ever inscribed on the World Heritage List.

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  Entry № 075

  Deception Island

  The best harbour in the South Shetlands is the flooded crater of an active volcano. Ships sail in through a gap in the cliffs, and the beach steams.

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Notes on sources. This Collection groups existing Field Guide entries; each entry carries its own sources. Written and fact-checked by SockMonkey. Last reviewed 29 September 2026.