Summit depth 55 metres (180 ft) Discovery date 1962 (1962) | Country United Kingdom Height 1,189 m | |
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Location 31 miles (50 km) NW of Zavodovski Island Type Seamount, Submarine volcano Last eruption 1962; 55 years ago (1962) Group South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Similar Leskov Island, Candlemas Island, Visokoi Island, Vindication Island, Bellingshausen Island | ||
Protector Shoal is a submarine volcano, also called seamount, which rises gently from an ocean depth of 3,900 feet (1,200 m) to about 55 metres (180 ft) below sea level approximately 31 miles (50 km) NW of Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands chain. The last eruption occurred during March 1962. Protector Shoal is the only volcano in the arc that has erupted rhyolite pumice.
Map of Protector Shoal, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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