List of submarine volcanoes

A list of active and extinct submarine volcanoes and seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans.[1] Almost all are not well-mapped and many may not have been identified at all. Most are unnamed and unexplored. This list is therefore confined to seamounts that are notable enough to have been named and/or explored.

Map of world's major seamounts.

List

Name (and country, if any)	Summit Elevation	Approximate elevation above seafloor	Location	Last known eruption
Adams Seamount	−39 m (−128 ft)[2]	3,500 m (11,000 ft)	25.37°S 129.27°W	50 BC ± 1000 years
Ampere Seamount	−4,800 m (−15,700 ft)		35.08°N 12.55°W
Axial Seamount	−1,400 m (−4,590 ft)		45.55°N 130.00°W	2015
Banua Wuhu	−5 m (−16 ft)[3]	400 m (1,300 ft)	3.138°N 125.491°E	1919
Bear Seamount	−1,100 m (−3,610 ft)	2,000 m (6,560 ft)	39.92°N 67.4°W
Bounty Seamount	−450 m (−1,480 ft)	3,950 m (13,000 ft)	25°11′S 129°23′W
Bowie Seamount	−24 m (−79 ft)	3,000 m (9,800 ft)	53.3°N 135.63°W	18,000 BP
Campi Flegrei Mar Sicilia	−8 m (−26 ft)[4]			1867
Cobb Seamount	−34 m (−110 ft)	2,743 m (8,999 ft)
Cortes Bank	−1 m (−3.3 ft)
Dom João de Castro Bank	−14 m (−46 ft)		38.23°N 26.63°W	1720
Empedocles	−7 m (−23 ft)	400 m (1,300 ft)
Emperor of China	−2,850 m (−9,350 ft)		6.62°S 124.22°E
Fonua foʻou	−17 m (−55.8 ft)
Foundation Seamounts
Fukutoku-Okanoba	−29 m (−95 ft)[5]
Gorringe Ridge	−25 m (−82 ft)
Graham Island	−8 m (−26 ft)[6]	63 m (207 ft)		1863
Healy	−1,150 m (−3,770 ft)		34.98°S 179.00°E	1360
Home Reef	−10 m (−33 ft)[7]
Kelvin Seamount			38.48°N 63.59°W
Kemp Caldera	−80 m (−262 ft)[8]
Kick 'em Jenny	−185 m (−607 ft)	1,300 m (4,270 ft)	12.30°N 61.64°W	2015
Kolumbo	−10 m (−33 ft)			1650
Kuwae			16.85°S 168.52°E
Loihi Seamount	−969 m (−3,180 ft)	3,000 m (9,840 ft)	18.92°N 155.27°W	1996
Macdonald seamount	−40 m (−131 ft)	4,200 m (13,800 ft)	28°58.7′S 140°15.5′W	1989
Marsili	−450 m (−1,480 ft)	3,000 m (9,800 ft)	39°15′00″N 14°23′40″E
Moai		2,500 m (8,200 ft)
Monaco Bank	−197 m (−646 ft)		37.6°N 25.88°W	1911
Monowai Seamount	−132 m (−433 ft)		25.887°S 177.188°W	2008
Muirfield Seamount	−16 m (−52.5 ft)	4,800 m (16,000 ft)	13°13′30″S 96°7′30″E
Myōjin-shō	−11 m (−36.1 ft)
Nieuwerkerk	−2,285 m (−7,500 ft)		6.60°S 124.675°E
Oomurodashi				active
Orca Seamount		500 m (1,640 ft)	62°26′00″S 58°24′00″W	inactive
Patton Seamount	−160 m (−520 ft)[9]	3,900 m (12,795 ft)
Protector Shoal	−55 m (−180 ft)	1,200 m (3,900 ft)		1962
Pukao		2,500 m (8,200 ft)
Rumble I	−1,100 m (−3,610 ft)		35.5°S 178.9°E
Rumble II	−880 m (−2,890 ft)		35.4°S 178.6°E
Rumble III	−140 m (−459 ft)		35.745°S 178.478°E	1986
Rumble IV	−450 m (−1,480 ft)		36.13°S 178.05°E
Rumble V	−1,100 m (−3,610 ft)		36.139°S 178.197°E
Submarine 1922	−5,000 m (−16,400 ft)		3.97°N 124.17°E
Suiyo Seamount	−1,418 m (−4,650 ft)
Supply Reef	−8 m (−26 ft)[10]		20.13°N 145.1°E[10]	1989[10]
Tagoro (El Hierro)				2011
Taney Seamounts			20.13°N 125.3375°E
Tuzo Wilson Seamounts			36.6882°N 130.9°W	Holocene
Vailulu'u	−590 m (−1,940 ft)
Vavilov (Mediterranean Sea)	−800 m (−2,600 ft)		39.86°N 12.59°E
Vema seamount	−11 m (−36 ft)	4,900 m (16,100 ft)
Unnamed volcano (Ibugos)	−24 m (−79 ft)		20.33°N 121.75°E	1854
Walters Shoals	−18 m (−59.1 ft)	4,750 m (15,580 ft)
West Mata	−9,656 m (−31,700 ft)		15.1°S 173.75°W	2009
Yersey	−3,800 m (−12,500 ft)		7.53°S 123.95°E

See also

• Lists of volcanoes
• Submarine volcanoes topics
• Submarine topography
• List of seamounts in the Southern Ocean

References

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3. "Campi Flegrei Mar Sicilia". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
4. "Campi Flegrei Mar Sicilia". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
5. "Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
6. Bird, Maryann (20 March 2000). "Fire from the Sea". Time magazine. Accessed 4 January 2018.
7. "Home Reef". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
8. Leat, P. T.; Pearce, J. A.; Barker, P. F.; Millar, I. L.; Barry, T. L.; Larter, R. D. (30 October 2004). "Magma genesis and mantle flow at a subducting slab edge: the South Sandwich arc-basin system". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 227 (1): 17–35. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.08.016. ISSN 0012-821X.
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10. "Supply Reef". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-03-03.