Take a Look at the Eight Perfectly Coned Volcanoes on Earth

                                            OSORNO VOLCANO   (CHILE)

     Volcanoes are the world most beautiful mountains and as beautiful as they are some of them are struggling and or vying for positions and title, which is displayed her in this article as "most perfectly coned" Take a look at them and their different locations in the world.

                                                   OSORNO VOLCANO

      Volcan Osorno is one of the most active volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. This stratovolcano is located in the Los Lagos Region of Chile with an elevation of 2,652 m (8,701 ft). Osorno is sitting on top of La Picada, a 250,000-year-old eroded stratovolcano with a 6-km-wide caldera. (photocredit) 




 
                               MOUNT TARANAKI    (NEW ZEALAND)

Also known as Mount Egmont, Mount Taranaki of New Zealand is an active but quiescent stratovolcano that rises at 2,517 m (8,261 ft). Having experienced at least five major eruptions by cone collapse, Taranaki is said to be considered unusual since few volcanoes have undergone more than one cone collapse. Taranaki came from the word tara which means "mountain peak", while naki is believed to come from the word ngaki meaning “shining”. (photo credit)

                              Cotopaxi (Ecuador)

     One of the world’s highest active volcano is Cotopaxi, which stands at 5,897 m (19,347 ft) high in the Andes Mountains south of Quito, Ecuador. Cotopaxi is a stratovolcano that is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The name cotopaxi means “smooth neck of the moon.” (photo credit)

                    Arenal Volcano (Costa Rica)

     Located northwest of Costa Rica, Volcan Arenal is an active andeistic stratovolcano that rises at a height of 1,656 m (5,436 ft). It was presumed extinct until July 1968 when an earthquake caused it to erupt after more than 400 years of being dormant. Arenal’s eruptions are considered strombolian or frequent but moderately active making it a popular tourist destination especially at night. The word arenal means “sandy.” (photo credit)

                             Mount Shishaldin (Alaska)

 

     Rising at 2,856 m (9,373 ft) in the Aleutian Islands chain of Alaska is Mount Shishaldin, the third largest island-based volcano in North America. It is moderately active and considered as the planet's most symmetrical cone-shaped glacier-clad large mountain. The Aleut's called it Sisquk, meaning "mountain which points the way when I am lost." Shishaldin’s most recent eruptions were in 1995-96 and 1999. (photo credit)

                                 Mount Fuji (Japan)

 

     Mount Fuji or Fuji-san as the Japanese calls it is a stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707-08. The 3,775 m (12,388 ft) high volcano is located west of Tokyo. Japan’s two major religions, Shinto and Buddhism, regards Fuji as sacred. The name Fuji means “deity of fire”; a more recent interpretation means “never die.” (photo credit)

                                 Kronotsky (Russia)

     Another ice-capped volcano with symmetrical conical shape is the 10,168 ft (3100 m) Kronotsky volcano in the Kamkacha Peninsula, Russia. This stratovolcano has long been considered extinct but on November 1922 locals reported black smoke erupting on its southern slope and on 1923 low rumble and flames at the summit were also experienced. However, these reports were not verified as dense vegetation makes field work difficult. Kronotsky is one of the world's least studied volcano. (photo credit)

                        Mayon Volcano (Philippines)

 

       Rising at an an elevation of 2,463 m (8,081 ft), Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano located in Bicol, Albay, Philippines. It is the most active volcano in the country, having erupted more than 50 times in the past 40 years. Mayon is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and is renowned as having the world’s most perfect cone due to its almost perfectly conical shape. The name Mayon came from the Bicol word magayon meaning “beautiful.” (photo credit)
 
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