Mount Iwate caldera (Hachimantai)

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Mount Iwate (岩手山, Iwate-san) is a stratovolcano complex located northwest of the city of Morioka in western Iwate Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan. The mountain is listed as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains in a book composed in 1964 by mountaineer/author Kyūya Fukada.

Mount Iwate consists of a younger eastern symmetrical stratovolcano (Higashi-Iwate, "East Iwate") overlapping an older western stratovolcano (Nishi-Iwate, "West Iwate") which has collapsed to form a caldera. The oval-shaped, 1.8 x 3 km caldera has a central cone containing a 0.5 km wide crater, partially filled by a crater lake.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Iwate
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Coordinates:   39°50'57"N   140°58'58"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago