Mount Meakan
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.
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.
Geography
There are two ponds in the crater, 赤沼 (Sekinuma, Red Pond) and 青沼 (Aonuma, Blue Pond).
Gallery
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Akan Caldera
Me-Akan (bottom left)
O-Akan (center right) -
Seen from the NE
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March 2006 eruption
See also
Notes
- ^ 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 ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5.
External links
- Meakandake - Japan Meteorological Agency (in Japanese)
- "Meakandake: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan" (PDF). - Japan Meteorological Agency
- Meakan Dake - Geological Survey of Japan
- "Akan". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
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