Summit depth Below Sea level Volcanic arc/chain Sala Y Gomez ridge Age of rock Pleistocene | Height 2500+ m Last eruption >100,000 BCE | |
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Similar Bowie Seamount, Poike, Terevaka, Lōʻihi Seamount, Rano Kau | ||
The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface. The Pukao Seamount is fairly young, and believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.
Map of Pukao Seamount
References
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