List of volcanoes in Tonga
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Tonga
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Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...
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| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Ata 'Ata Ata is a small, rocky island in the far south of the Tonga archipelago, situated on . It is also known as Pylstaart island. It should not be confused with Atā, which is an uninhabited, low coral island in the string of small atolls along the Piha passage along the northside of Tongatapu, nor should... |
382 | 1253 | 22.15°S 176.18°W | |
| Curacoa Curacoa volcano Curacoa is a submarine volcano located south of Curacoa Reef in northern Tonga. Eruptions were observed in 1973 and 1979, from two separate vents. The 1973 eruption produced a large raft of dacitic pumice. That eruption had a VEI of 3.... |
-33 | -108 | 15.62°S 173.67°W | 1979 |
| Fonua foou | -17 | -56 | 20.32°S 175.42°W | 1936 |
| Fonualei Fonualei (volcano) Fonualei is a volcanic island close to Vavau in the kingdom of Tonga.It was seen by Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle on the La Princesa in February 1781. He reported the island to be barren from eruptions, and called it for that reason Bitterness island.... |
180 | 591 | 18.02°S 174.325°W | 1957 |
| Home Reef Home Reef Home Reef is an ephemeral island built by a submarine volcano whose top has repeatedly breached the surface and was subsequently eroded by wave action again... |
-2 | -7 | 18.992°S 174.775°W | 2006 |
| Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai Hunga Tonga Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai is a volcano located about 30 km south-southeast of Fonuafoou , part of Tonga.The volcano is part of the highly active Tonga-Kermadec Islands volcanic arc, a subduction zone extending from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji. The volcano lies about above a very active... |
149 | 489 | 20.57°S 175.38°W | 2009 |
| Kao Kao (island) Kao is an island and stratovolcano in Tonga. It reaches above sea level, the highest point in Tonga. The date of its last eruption is unknown, and fresh lava flows are not seen, but the absence of deep erosional gullies or high sea cliffs suggests a very recent origin. It lies about north of... |
1030 | 3379 | 19.67°S 175.03°W | Holocene |
| Late Late (Tonga) Late Island is an uninhabited volcanic island southwest of Vavau in the kingdom of Tonga.The small, 6-km-wide circular island of Late, lying along the Tofua volcanic arc about 55 km WSW of the island of Vavau, contains a 400-m-wide, 150-m-deep summit crater with an ephemeral lake... |
540 | 1772 | 18.806°S 174.65°W | 1854 |
| Metis Shoal Metis Shoal Metis Shoal is a shoal at the top of a submarine volcano, located between the islands of Kao and Late in Tonga. When the volcano erupted in 1995 a 43 metre high island formed, composed of a solid lava dome above the surface... |
43 | 141 | 19.18°S 174.87°W | 1995 |
| Niuafoou Niuafo'ou Niuafoou is the most northerly island in the kingdom of Tonga. It is a volcanic rim island of 15 km² and with a population of 650 in 2006.-Geography:... |
260 | 853 | 15.60°S 175.63°W | 1985 |
| Niuatoputapu Niuatoputapu For the 2009 tsunami, see the main article: 2009 Samoa tsunami.Niuatoputapu is an island in the island nation of Tonga, Pacific Ocean. Its name means sacred island. Older European names for the island are Traitors island or Keppel island.Niuatoputapu is located in the north of the country,... |
157 | 515 | 15.96°S 173.74°W | 3 million years ago |
| Tafahi Tafahi Tafahi is a small island in the north of the Tonga archipelago, in fact closer to Savaii than the main islands of Tonga. It is only north-northeast away from Niuatoputapu, and fishermen communicate in small outboard motorboats almost daily between the two.Other names for Tafahi are Cocos Eylant ... |
560 | 1837 | 15.85°S 173.72°W | Holocene |
| Tofua Tofua Tofua Caldera, in Tonga, is the summit caldera of a steep-sided composite cone that forms Tofua Island. Tofua Island is in Tonga's Ha'apai island group. Pre-caldera activity is recorded by a sequence of pyroclastic deposits and lavas constituting the older cone, followed on the northern part of the... |
515 | 1690 | 19.75°S 175.07°W | 1960 |
| Unnamed (1) | -13 | -43 | 20.85°S 175.53°W | 1999 |
| Unnamed (2) | -500 | -1640 | 21.38°S 175.65°W | 1932 |
| Unnamed (3) | -300 | -984 | 18.325°S 174.365°W | 2001 |