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Encyclopedia > List of volcanoes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
May-Ya-Moto 950 3117 0.93° S 29.33° E -
Nyamuragira 3058 10,033 1° .408 S° 29.20 2004
Nyiragongo 3470 11,384 1.52° S 29.25° E 2006
Tshibinda 1460 4790 2.32° S 28.75° E Holocene
Visoke 3711 12,175 1.47° S 29.492° E 1957

This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Mount Nyamuragira is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Mount Nyiragongo is a dormant volcano in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Great Rift Valley or East African Rift. ...

References

  • Siebert, L. and T. Simkin (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3. URL: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/

 

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