Mount Meakan

Mount Meakan
Mount Meakan
雌阿寒岳 Meakan-dake
	Mount Meakan
Highest point
Elevation	1,499 m (4,918 ft)
Listing	List of mountains and hills of Japan by height; List of volcanoes in Japan; 100 Famous Japanese Mountains
Coordinates	43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°E
Geography
Location	Hokkaidō, Japan
Parent range	Akan Volcanic Complex
Topo map(s)	Geographical Survey Institute 25000:1 雌阿寒岳; 25000:1 オンネト; 50000:1 阿寒湖; 50000:1 上足寄
Geology
Rock age	Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Mountain type	stratovolcano
Volcanic arc/belt	Kurile arc
Last eruption	November 2008

Mount Meakan (雌阿寒岳, Meakan-dake) is an active stratovolcano located in Akan National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is the tallest mountain in the Akan Volcanic Complex.^[1] The volcano consists of nine overlapping cones that grew out of the Akan caldera, on the shores of Lake Akan. Mount Meakan has a triple crater at its summit. According to its name and local legend, Mount Meakan is the female counterpart to Mount Oakan on the other side of Lake Akan.^[1]

Geography

There are two ponds in the crater, 赤沼 (Sekinuma, Red Pond) and 青沼 (Aonuma, Blue Pond).

References

Geographical Survey Institute
Akan, Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Hokkaido, Seamless Digital Geological Map of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2007.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Hunt, Paul (1988). "32: Climbing an Active Volcano: Meakan-dake (雌阿寒岳)". Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails (First Edition ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)

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[Hunt-1] Hunt, Paul (1988). "32: Climbing an Active Volcano: Meakan-dake (雌阿寒岳)". Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails (First Edition ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)

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