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Volcanic plugs

Volcanic plugs

  • Pitons
    The Pitons are two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in Saint Lucia.
  • Soroti
    Soroti is the main municipal, commercial, and administrative centre of Soroti District in the Eastern Region of Uganda, lying near Lake Kyoga.
  • Marotiri
    Marotiri is a group of four uninhabited volcanic rocks protruding from the sea (and several submerged rocks), forming the southeastern end of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.
  • Mount Kenya
    Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.
  • Sigiriya
    Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (Lion Rock Sinhalese: සීගිරිය, Tamil: சிகிரியா, pronounced see-gi-ri-yə) is an ancient rock fortress located in the central Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka.
  • Malang Plain
    Malang Plain is a group of nine ash cones, maars and volcanic plugs.
  • Mount Popa
    Mount Popa (Burmese: ပုပ္ပားတောင်; MLCTS: puppa: taung, IPA: [pòpá tàʊɴ]) is a volcano 1518 metres (4981 feet) above sea level, and located in central Burma (Myanmar) about 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Bagan (Pagan) in the Pegu Range.
  • Diamond Rock
    Diamond Rock (French: rocher du Diamant) is a 175-metre-high (574 ft) basalt island located south of "Grande Anse du Diamant" before arriving to Fort-de-France from the South.
  • Sugar Loaf Islands
    The Sugar Loaf Islands (often Sugarloaf Islands) (Māori: Ngā Motu, "the islands") are a collection of five small uninhabited islands and several sea stacks near Port Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand.
  • Trindade and Martim Vaz
    Trindade and Martim Vaz (Portuguese: Trindade e Martim Vaz, pronounced: [tɾĩˈdadʒi i mɐʁˈtʃĩ ˈvas]) is an archipelago located about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Vitória in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the State of Espírito Santo, Southeast Brazil.
  • Mount Seppiko
    Mount Seppiko (雪彦山 Seppiko-san) is a mountain or mountains in Himeji, Hyōgo, Japan.
  • Cerro Pantoja
    Cerro Pantoja, also spelled as Cerro Pantojo, is an extinct basaltic stratovolcano on the border of Argentina and Chile.
  • Shinmoedake
    Shinmoe-dake (新燃岳) is a volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan, and a part of the Mount Kirishima cluster of volcanoes.
  • Tororo Rock
    Tororo Rock is a rock formation located in the town of Tororo in eastern Uganda.