List of volcanoes in the United Kingdom
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There are no active volcanoes in Great Britain or Ireland, but there are a few in British dependent territories. One of the largest is 1,370-metre (4,490 ft) Mount Belinda at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. on Montagu Island in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. It is within the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Mount Michael (805 m (2,641 ft)), at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. on Saunders Island, was active in 2005. Its 700-metre-diameter (2,300 ft) summit crater is thought to possibly contain an active lava lake, one of only a handful in the world.
Below is a list of extinct volcanoes in the United Kingdom.
Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
Ardnamurchan | - | - | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | early Eocene: c.55 million years ago |
Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh | 251 | 824 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Carboniferous |
Borrowdale Volcanics (Cumbria) | - | Silurian or earlier | ||
Cheviot Hills | 815 | 2674 | - | Ordovician |
Cuillin Hills (on Isle of Skye) | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tertiary | ||
Dundee Law extinct volcano in Dundee | 500 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Ordovician | |
Edinburgh Castle castle rock | - | - | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Lower Carboniferous |
Giant's Causeway | - | - | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Paleogene |
Glen Coe Caldera | - | - | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Silurian |
North Berwick Law | 187 | 613 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Carboniferous |
Snowdonia mountains in North Wales | Ordovician |