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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Nightingale Island
The roughly 2-km-wide, 3 km2 Nightingale (lower), Middle, and Stoltenhoff (top) islands in the South Atlantic Ocean are shown in this January 2018 Planet Labs satellite image monthly mosaic (N is at the top). The heavily eroded Island is the southernmost of the Tristan da Cunha group, and a submarine eruption occurred in 2004. Satellite image courtesy of Planet Labs Inc., 2018 (https://www.planet.com/).
Volcano Number:
386011
Volcano Name:
Nightingale Island
Country:
United Kingdom
Volcano Type:
Stratovolcano
Last Eruption:
2004 CE
Elevation:
365m
Tectonic Setting:
Rift zone / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
Pop. within 30km:
27
Pop. within 100km:
258
Latitude:
-37.42
Longitude:
-12.48
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Nightingale Island, along with the adjacent smaller Middle (or Alex) and Stoltenhoff Islands and associated small islets, are the southernmost of the Tristan da Cunha island group. The heavily eroded island consists of ash and agglomerate units with intervening massive trachytic intrusions and lava flows. Volcanic rocks were K-Ar dated at between 400,000 and 150,000 years, and a radiocarbon date of about 39,000 years BP was obtained from an ash layer overlain by a lava flow. An earthquake swarm lasting 6 hours beginning on 29 July 2004 was followed by observation of large blocks of floating phonolitic pumice that washed up on Tristan da Cunha. The pumice was considered to be from an eruption associated with an earthquake swarm 37-53 km SSE of Tristan da Cunha on the submarine SE flank of Nightingale Island.
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