Mount Bandai
| Mount Bandai | |
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| 磐梯山 | |
Mount Bandai rises above rice fields.
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,819 m (5,968 ft) |
| Listing | 100 famous mountains in Japan |
| Coordinates | 37°35′53″N 140°04′32″E / 37.59806°N 140.07556°ECoordinates: 37°35′53″N 140°04′32″E / 37.59806°N 140.07556°E |
| Naming | |
| Translation | A rock ladder to the sky |
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 Mount Bandai
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| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
| Last eruption | July 1888 |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | Hiking |
Mount Bandai (磐梯山 Bandai-san?) is a stratovolcano located in Inawashiro-town, Bandai-town, and Kitashiobara village, in Yama-Gun, Fukushima prefecture. It is an active stratovolcano located to the north of Lake Inawashiro. Mount Bandai, including the Bandai heights, belongs to the Bandai-Asahi National Park.
The altitude of the triangulation station “Bandai”, installed in 1904, had been employed as the official altitude of Mount Bandai. However, after the station disappeared due to erosion, it was re-measured in October 2010 and now is 1,816.29m. The name “Mount Bandai” is used to refer to the main peak “Bandai”, along with several other peaks including Akahani at 1,430m and Kushigamine at 1,636m, created during the 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai.
Mount Bandai was originally called “Iwahashi-yama” which means “a rock ladder to the sky.” It is now sometimes called “Aizu Fuji” and “Aizu Bandai”. The south foot is called Omotebandai and the north foot is called Urabandai. When seen from Omotebandai, the mountain looks very tidy, but when viewed from Urabandai the mountain shows a wild shape, due to its collapse.
It is one of the list of the 100 famous mountains in Japan. In 2007, the mountain was selected as one of the top 100 geographic landmarks in Japan. Additionally, in 2011 the mountain was certified as a geopark of Japan.
<<Volcanic Activity>> ' Typical features of mount Bandai’s activity are debris avalanches and sector collapses. We know this because evidence of this has been left in past activities. Mount Bandai has not experienced a lava flow after the eruption of about 10 000 years ago. Sediment surveys have shown us that the history of the volcano can be divided into 6 sections. It is thought that the volcanic activity period was from about 290,000 years ago when there were 2 scoria eruptions, after the activity of Mt. Nekoma (from approximately 1.1 million years ago to 350 thousand years ago) somewhere to the west.
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