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Mount Meakan

Active stratovolcano on the island of Hokkaido, Japan

Mount Meakan

Location of Mount Meakan in Hokkaidō, Japan.

LocationHokkaidō, JapanParent rangeAkan Volcanic ComplexTopo mapGeographical Survey Institute 25000:1 雌阿寒岳
25000:1 オンネト
50000:1 阿寒湖
50000:1 上足寄GeologyAge of rockLate Pleistocene-HoloceneMountain typestratovolcanoVolcanic arc/beltKurile arcLast eruptionNovember 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]

Akan Caldera
Me-Akan (bottom left)
O-Akan (center right)
Seen from the NE
March 2006 eruption

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 (in Japanese)
"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. Retrieved 2021-06-25.