Height >2,500 metres Volcanic arc/chain Sala y Gómez ridge Age of rock Pleistocene | Type Submarine volcano Last eruption >100,000 BCE | |
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Location Pacific Ocean, west of Easter Island Similar Hodgkins Seamount, Tuzo Wilson Seamounts, Adams Seamount, Bowie Seamount, Monowai Seamount | ||
The Moai Seamount is a submarine volcano, the second most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. It is east of Pukao seamount and west of Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface. The Moai seamount is fairly young, having developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.
Map of Moai Seamount, Chile
The Moai seamount was named after the moai statues of neighbouring Easter Island.
References
Moai (seamount) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA