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Mount Hodson

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Location
  
South Sandwich Islands

Last eruption
  
Unknown

Mountain type
  
Stratovolcano

Elevation
  
1,005 m

Similar
  
Visokoi Island, Mount Belinda, Leskov Island

Mount Hodson is an ice-covered stratovolcano and the highest point on Visokoi Island, South Sandwich Islands. It might have erupted in 1830 and 1930, and the summit usually steams. Named after Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodson (1881-1944), Governor of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies, 1926-30.

Map of Mount Hodson, SIQQ 1ZZ, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

References

Mount Hodson Wikipedia