Gaua, Santa Maria Island, Vanuatu

Gaua, Santa Maria Island, Vanuatu
Location: 14.3S, 167.5E
Elevation: 2,614 feet (797 m) Santa Maria Island is the top of Gaua, a stratovolcano. Gaua rises about 9,800 feet (3,000 m) from the sea floor. Steaming Hill Lake, a crescent-shaped crater lake, is just below Mt. Gharat, a secondary cone and summit of the volcano. Solfataras are on the south side of the volcano and hot springs are on the north slope. Map from Fisher (1957) after J.R. Baker. Gaua has had at least 13 eruptions from Mt. Gharat since 1963. The most recent eruption was in 1982 and...
Read more at University of North Dakota's Volcano World. posted to Volcanoes. at Tue Jul 22 12:02:00 EDT 2003.

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Gaua Volcano Travel

Travel to Gaua Volcano. See information at www.volcanolive.com

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posted to Gaua, Santa Maria Island, Vanuatu. at Sun Aug 24 02:19:00 EDT 2003.

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posted to Gaua Volcano Travel. at Thu Jan 20 12:33:15 EST 2005.

help

Could you please tell me what plates are under Mt. Gaua?

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posted to Gaua, Santa Maria Island, Vanuatu. at Thu Apr 29 21:05:44 EDT 2004.

Geography

Can you please tell me the most recent volcano eruption in Santa, Maria, Guatemalan and how many deaths it had. Thanks

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posted to Gaua, Santa Maria Island, Vanuatu. at Thu Jan 06 01:23:52 EST 2005.

future implacations

can you please tell me some fute=ure implacations of the sanat marias eruptions? thank you very much, Hope

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posted to Gaua, Santa Maria Island, Vanuatu. at Sun Apr 17 04:19:47 EDT 2005.

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