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List of volcanoes in Australia


This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories. Note that the term volcano is used loosely as it can include groups of related volcanoes and vents that erupted at similar times with lava of related origin. The lists provided below are mainly volcanoes of Cenozoic aged, with some notable older (Mesozoic and Paleozoic aged) volcanoes included. There are no volcanoes on the Australian mainland that have erupted since European settlement, however some volcanoes in Victoria, South Australia, and North Queensland are likely to have been active and witnessed by Aboriginal people several thousand years ago. There are active volcanoes in the Heard and McDonald Islands.

(There are not many volcanic outcrops in the region,

This feature probably should not be in this list )

(the nearby tertiary basalts are

probably not specifically

associated with Mount Bonang,

this feature probably should not be in this list)

in these high plains, but Mount Hotham and its

ranges are composed mostly of metamorphic sedimentary

rocks, so this feature probably should not be in this list)

There are no active or dormant volcanoes in Western Australia, although there are a number of extinct ones, and geological evidence of others. There are nineteen small extinct volcanoes in the valley of the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Kimberley also has a number of groups of hot springs, which may be connected with the volcanic activity that produced the extinct volcanoes (but since these volcanic formations are Proterozoic in age - i.e. maybe a billion years old, this would be very unlikely!) . There are also deposits of basalt at Bunbury and Cape Gosselin.

Norfolk Island and neighbouring Nepean Island and Phillip Island are mountain top remnants of an elongated shield volcano.


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