Epic Volcanoes in Africa

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Mt. Roja

The hike to the peak of this volcano mountain is a wonderful experience.
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Trou aux Cerfs Volcano

Trou aux Cerfs is a dormant volcano with a well-defined cone and crater. It is 605 m high and located in Curepipe, Mauritius.
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Pico de las Nieves

Pico de las Nieves is the highest peak and a stratovolcano on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Pico Viejo

Pico Viejo is a volcano located on the island of Tenerife in Canary Islands, Spain.
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Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya is an extinct volcano in Kenya and the second-highest peak in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.
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Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro () is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the highest free-standing mountain…
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Mount Nyiragongo

Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3,470 m in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift.
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Mount Cameroon

Mount Cameroon is an active volcano in the South West region of Cameroon next to the city of Buea near the Gulf of Guinea.
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Piton des Neiges

The Piton des Neiges is a 3,069 m shield volcano on Réunion, one of the French volcanic islands in the Mascarene Archipelago in the…
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Mount Karthala

Mount Karthala or Karthola is an active volcano and the highest point of the Comoros at 2,361 m above sea level.
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Nyamuragira

Nyamuragira, also known as Nyamulagira, is an active shield volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
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Emi Koussi

Emi Koussi is a high pyroclastic shield volcano that lies at the southeast end of the Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara, in the…
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Pico do Fogo

Pico do Fogo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde, rising to 2,829 metres above sea level.
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Dallol

Dallol is a unique, terrestrial hydrothermal system around a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range…
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Tahat

Mount Tahat is the highest mountain in Algeria. It sits at an elevation of 2,908 metres.
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Marrah

The Marrah Mountains or Marra Mountains (Fur, Fugo Marra; Arabic: جبل مرة, Jebel Marra are a range of volcanic peaks in a massif that rises…
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Mount Zuqualla

Mount Zuqualla is an extinct volcano in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.
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Tanganasoga

Tanganasoga is the main volcano of El Hierro's El Golfo area in the Canary Islands, consisting of a cinder cone.
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Red Hill

This is a list of mountains and hills in Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, the British Overseas Territory, listed by height.

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