Aneityum (Vanuatu)

Status Unknown Eruption Unknown 852m
Stratovolcano(es) (Subduction zone / Intermediate crust (15-25 km))

Oval-shaped, 17-km-wide Aneityum Island, also known as Anatom or Anetchom, lies SE of Tanna Island and is the southernmost of the Vanuatu Islands chain. Aneityum consists of two coalescing, dominantly basaltic Pleistocene volcanoes. Both the NW side of Inrerow Atamwan volcano and the SE side of Nanawarez volcano are truncated by large erosional cirques. Volcanic activity ceased during the uppermost late-Pleistocene to Holocene (Carney and Macfarlane, 1979).

Clouds drape oval-shaped, 17-km-wide Aneityum Island in this NASA Space Shuttle image with north to the top. Aneityum, also known as Anatom, consists of two coalescing, dominantly basaltic Pleistocene volcanoes. Both the NW side of Inrerow Atamwan volcano (left) and the SE side of Nanawarez volcano (right) are truncated by large erosional cirques. Volcanic activity ceased during the uppermost late-Pleistocene to Holocene. Fringing reefs are visible on the northern side of the island.

NASA Space Shuttle image ISS006-E-5732, 2002 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

Last updated 2019-08-04 00:28:02