List of volcanoes in Australia explained
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, but some volcanoes in Victoria, South Australia and North Queensland could have been witnessed by Aboriginal people several thousand years ago. There are active volcanoes in the Heard and McDonald Islands.
Australian states
Queensland
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption |
|---|
| metres | feet | Coordinates |
|---|
| Atherton Volcano | — | — | -17.5°N 144.5°W | <100,000 years ago[1] |
| 730 | — | -17.2°N 145.4°W | >17,000 years ago |
| Mount Quincan | 703 | 2,306 | -17.3031°N 145.5775°W | 10,000 years ago |
| Bauhinia Volcano | — | — | -24.8°N 149.5°W | 23–25 million years ago |
| Brisbane Volcano | — | — | -27.7°N 152.6°W | 16–62 million years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| Bundaberg Volcano | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | -26.9°N 151.8°W | 23 million years ago |
| Chudleigh Volcano | — | — | -10.5°N 144.2°W | 250,000 years ago |
| — | — | -17.2°N 145.6°W | >9,000 years ago |
| Malanda Volcano | 1200 | — | -17.5°N 145.5°W | 3 million years ago |
| — | — | -18.5°N 145.47°W | — |
| Mount Hay | — | — | — | — |
| Fraser Volcano | | | -25°N 153.35°W | 31 million years ago |
| Hillsborough Volcano | — | — | -21°N 149°W | 33.2 million years ago |
| 90 | — | -24.8425°N 152.4264°W | — |
| 1,000 | — | -17.2°N 145.2°W | — |
| - align="right" | The Crater (Bombarri Mountain) | 1,000 | — | -19.6°N 144.3°W | — |
| — | — | -18.3°N 144.6°W | 7,000 years ago[2] |
| Main Range Volcano | — | — | -27.9°N 152.4°W | 23–27 million years ago[3] |
| Mount Le Brun | — | — | -25.5978°N 151.9089°W | >600,000 years ago |
| Mount McBride | 911 | — | -18.3°N 144.6°W | 1.7 million years ago |
| McLean Volcano | — | — | -15.8°N 144.8°W | <1 million years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| Mitchell Volcano | — | — | -26°N 148.2°W | 21–24 million years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| Nebo Volcano | — | — | -21.4°N 148.2°W | 28–35 million years ago |
| Nulla Volcano | — | — | -19.7°N 145.3°W | 13,000 years ago |
| Piebald Volcano | 417 | — | -15.1°N 145.1°W | <3 million years ago |
| Rockhampton Volcano | — | — | -23.3°N 150.4°W | 67–71 million years ago |
| 600 | — | -24°N 148.1°W | 24–33 million years ago |
| — | — | -20.3°N 144.2°W | 92,000 years ago |
| Toomba | — | — | -19.5°N 145°W | 21,000 years ago |
| 1,020 | 3,345 | -18.25°N 144.75°W | 189,000 years ago |
| Wallaroo Volcano | — | — | -18°N 145.4°W | <5 million years ago |
| Mount Barney, Focal Peak Volcano | 1,359 | 4,958 | -28.17°N 152.42°W | — |
| Campbells Folly | — | — | — | — |
| Mount Pie | — | — | — | — |
| Mount Glennie | — | — | — | — |
| Levers Plateau | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | 26–27 million years ago[4] |
| Mount Beerburrum | 276 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| 556 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Coochin | 235 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Cooee | — | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| 377 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Elimbah | 129 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Horogargan | — | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Miketeebumulgrai | 199 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| 253 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Round Mountain | — | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Tibberoowuccum | 220 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| 364 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Mount Tunbubudla | 312 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| 123 | — | -26.7°N 152.9°W | 26–27 million years ago |
| Anvil Peak | — | — | -22.8°N 148°W | 27–35 million years ago |
| Table Mountain | — | — | -22.8°N 148°W | 27–35 million years ago |
| 200 | 656 | -10°N 144°W | 1 million years ago |
|
New South Wales
Victoria
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption |
|---|
| metres | feet | Coordinates |
|---|
| Aberfeldy Volcano | — | — | -37.8°N 146.4°W | 27 million years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| 744 | — | — | — |
| Lake Colongulac | — | — | — | — |
| Cosgrove | | | | 9 million years ago |
| Dargo | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | -38.07°N 141.92°W | 36.9 ±3.1 thousand years ago |
| 395 | — | -37.96°N 143.2°W | 5,000–20,000 years ago |
| Flinders Volcano | — | — | -38.5°N 145.3°W | 40–48 million years ago |
| 635 | — | — | 470,000 years ago |
| Gelantipy Volcano | — | — | -37.2°N 148.3°W | 34–43 million years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| Mount Hamilton | — | — | — | — |
| Howitt Volcano | — | — | -37.2°N 146.7°W | 32–36 million years ago |
| Lake Keilambete | — | — | — | — |
| 230 | — | — | — |
| La Trobe Volcano | — | — | -38.5°N 146.3°W | 50–59 million years ago |
| 311 | — | -38.1°N 143.1°W | 5,000–20,000 years ago |
| 1,014 | 3,346 | -37.41°N 144.58°W | 360 million years ago |
| 440 | 1,440 | -37.8°N 142.5°W | 32,000 years ago |
| Neerim Volcano | — | — | -38°N 146°W | 20–25 million years ago |
| 310 | — | -38.1769°N 142.9276°W | 5,000–20,000 years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| 278 | — | -38.18°N 143.17°W | 300,000 years ago |
| — | — | — | — |
| Stockyard Hill | — | — | -37.56°N 143.32°W | 0.1–0.5 million years ago |
| The Anakies | — | — | -37.55°N 144.1°W | 1.5 million years ago[6] |
| Toombullup Volcano | — | — | -36.9°N 146.3°W | 37–44 million years ago |
| 103 | 338 | -38.3212°N 142.3597°W | 36.8 ±3.8 thousand years ago |
| Uplands Volcano | — | — | -36.8°N 147.6°W | 2 million years ago |
| 741 | — | — | — |
| 216 | — | -38.18°N 142.44°W | 5,000–20,000 years ago |
| — | — | -37.7667°N 172°W | — | |
South Australia
South Australia's volcanoes are the youngest in Australia, and erupted within the memory of local Indigenous peoples. They are all in the Limestone Coast region, in the Mount Burr Range. They are considered dormant rather than extinct.
Western Australia
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.
Tasmania
Territories
Heard and McDonald Islands
Lord Howe Island
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island and neighbouring Nepean Island and Phillip Island are mountain top remnants of an elongated shield volcano.[7]
Tasman Sea
| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption |
|---|
| metres | feet | Coordinates |
|---|
| Bass Strait Basin | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — |
| Barcoo Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| Britannia Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| Derwent-Hunter Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — |
| Heemskirk Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| Queensland Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| Soela Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| Taupo Seamount | — | — | — | — |
| Zeelian Seamount | — | — | — | — | |
Other
References
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Notes and References
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- Cohen. B.E.. Mark. D.F.. Fallon. S.J.. Stephenson. P.J.. 2017. Holocene-Neogene volcanism in northeastern Australia: Chronology and eruption history.. Quaternary Geochronology. 39. 79–91. 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.01.003. 2017QuGeo..39...79C .
- Knesel. Kurt M.. Cohen. Benjamin E.. Vasconcelos. Paulo M.. Thiede. David S.. Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau. Nature. 454. 7205. 754–757. 10.1038/nature07138. 18685705. 2008. 2008Natur.454..754K. 4427792.
- Cohen. B. E.. Vasconcelos. P. M.. Knesel. K. M.. 2007-02-01. 40Ar/39Ar constraints on the timing of Oligocene intraplate volcanism in southeast Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54. 1. 105–125. 10.1080/08120090600981483. 2007AuJES..54..105C. 128834679. 0812-0099.
- Cohen. B. E.. Knesel. K. M.. Vasconcelos. P. M.. Thiede. D. S.. Hergt. J. M.. Janet Hergt. 2008-04-01. 40Ar/39Ar constraints on the timing and origin of Miocene leucitite volcanism in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 55. 3. 407–418. 10.1080/08120090701769514. 2008AuJES..55..407C. 129437099. 0812-0099.
- Web site: The Anakies .
- Web site: Norfolk Island. ga.gov.au. 15 May 2014 .
