Mount Meakan

Mount Meakan
雌阿寒岳 Meakan-dake
Volcanic craters
Elevation	1,499 m (4,918 ft)
Listing	List of mountains and hills of Japan by height List of volcanoes in Japan 100 Famous Japanese Mountains
Location
Location	Hokkaidō, Japan
Range	Akan Volcanic Complex
Coordinates	43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°E / 43.38639; 144.00889Coordinates: 43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°E / 43.38639; 144.00889
Topo map	Geographical Survey Institute 25000:1 雌阿寒岳 25000:1 オンネト 50000:1 阿寒湖 50000:1 上足寄
Geology
Type	stratovolcano
Age of rock	Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Volcanic arc/belt	Kurile arc
Last eruption	31 March 2006

Mount Meakan erupting in March of 2006

Mount Meakan (雌阿寒岳, Meakan-dake^?) is an active stratovolcano located in Akan National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is the tallest mountain in the Akan Volcanic Complex.^[1] The volcano consists of nine overlapping cones that grew out of the Akan caldera, on the shores of Lake Akan. Mount Meakan has a triple crater at its summit. According to its name and local legend, Mount Meakan is the female counterpart to Mount Oakan on the other side of Lake Akan.^[1]

Geography

There are two ponds in the crater, 赤沼 (Sekinuma, Red Pond) and 青沼 (Aonuma, Blue Pond).

References

• Geographical Survey Institute
• Akan, Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• MEAKAN-DAKE, Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2006
• Hokkaido, Seamless Digital Geological Map of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2007.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Hunt, Paul (1988). "32: Climbing an Active Volcano: Meakan-dake (雌阿寒岳)". Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails (First Edition ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5.