Mount Meakan
Appearance
Mount Meakan | |
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![]() 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 |
Naming | |
Native name | 雌阿寒岳 Meakan-dake Error {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help) |
Geography | |
Location | Hokkaidō, Japan |
Parent range | Akan Volcanic Complex |
Topo map | 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 | |
Age of rock | 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]
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Me-Akan (bottom left)
O-Akan (center right)
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Geography
There are two ponds in the crater, 赤沼 (Sekinuma, Red Pond) and 青沼 (Aonuma, Blue Pond).
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 ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5.
External links
- Meakandake - Japan Meteorological Agency Template:Ja icon
- "Meakandake: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan" (PDF). - Japan Meteorological Agency
- Meakan Dake - Geological Survey of Japan
- Akan: Global Volcanism Program - Smithsonian Institution
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