Natural wonder · Vanuatu
Mount Yasur
Stratovolcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu
About Mount Yasur
Mount Yasur is an active volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, 361 m (1,184 ft) high above sea level, on the coast near Sulphur Bay, northeast of the taller Mount Tukosmera, which was active in the Pleistocene. It has a largely unvegetated pyroclastic cone with a nearly circular summit crater 400 m in diameter. It is a stratovolcano, caused by the eastward-moving Indo-Australian Plate being subducted under the westward-moving Pacific Plate. It has been erupting nearly continuously for several hundred years, although it can usually be approached safely.
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Mount Yasur is in Vanuatu. The nearest city is Isangel, about 17 km away.
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