Walsh's Pyramid, Queensland, Australia. 922 meter mountain south of Cairns that has a definate pyramid shape, the scene of an annual foot race to the summit and back from the near by town of Gordenvale. Also a favourite with those quaint individuals that think ancient Egyptians travelled the world building pyramids and hiding them under mountains etc.
2652 m (8,701 ft). Last Known Eruption: 1869.
The symmetrical, glacier-clad Osorno volcano forms a renowned landmark that towers over Todos los Santos and Llanquihué lakes.
1500 m (4,921 ft).
The 1988 eruption deposited ash and pumice on the Patagonian Icecap and produced a mudflow that reached Viedma Lake.
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3058 m (10,033 ft). Last Known Eruption: 2004.
Africa's most active volcano, Nyamuragira is a massive high-potassium basaltic shield volcano that rises about 25 km north of Lake Kivu.
3470 m (11,384 ft).
Last Known Eruption: 2005.
One of Africa's most notable volcanoes, Nyiragongo contained a lava lake in its deep summit crater that was active for half a century before draining catastrophically through its outer flanks in 1977.
5672 m (18,609 ft). Last Known Eruption: 1969. A small, 1.2-km-wide caldera that cuts the top of Ubinas, Peru's most active volcano, gives it a truncated appearance.
5808 m (19,055 ft). Cerros de Tocorpuri (or Volcán Tocorpuri) is a stratovolcano complex on the Chile-Bolivia border with a youthful-looking rhyolitic lava dome, Cerro la Torta, at its western foot.
5822 m (19,101 ft). Last Known Eruption: 1784.
El Misti, Peru's most well-known volcano, is a symmetrical andesitic stratovolcano with nested summit craters that towers above the city of Arequipa.
3265 m. (10,712ft). Tarso Toussidé, a broad volcanic massif at the western end of the Tibesti Range, is capped by the Toussidé stratovolcano, constructed at the western end of the 14-km-wide ignimbritic Yirrigue caldera of Pleistocene age.
The 5-km-wide, steep-walled caldera, located at the southern end of the volcanic field, was formed about 3500 years ago at the time of the eruption of voluminous airfall pumice and pyroclastic flows that traveled more than 30 km from the volcano.
3,415 m. (11,204 ft).
Emi Koussi is a huge extinct volcano in the middle of the Sahara Desert. It is the highest of the Tibesti Mountains, located in extreme north Chad. Its crater is 12 miles wide and 4,000 feet deep.
4565 m. (14,977 feet).
Meru volcano, Africa's fourth highest mountain, is dwarfed by neighboring Kilimanjaro volcano, but is an impressive peak in its own right.
BEY DAGLARI, 3070 m (10072 ft).
"TAURUS" is the name of a series of mountain ranges, which begin as far to the west as Caria and Lycia, where it is called "Western Taurus".
This mighty volcano overlooks Ecuador´s capital Quito. It is nicely visible that the western half of the caldera was blown or slipped away during or after an eruption.
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