Mount Meakan

Mount Meakan (雌阿寒岳, Meakan-dake) is an active stratovolcano located in Akan National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan. It is the tallest mountain in the Akan Volcanic Complex.[1] The volcano consists of nine overlapping cones that grew out of the Akan caldera, on the shores of Lake Akan. Mount Meakan has a triple crater at its summit. According to its name and local legend, Mount Meakan is the female counterpart to Mount Oakan on the other side of Lake Akan.[1]

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  Akan Caldera
  Me-Akan (bottom left)
  O-Akan (center right)
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  Seen from the NE
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  March 2006 eruption

Mount Meakan
Highest point
Elevation	1,499 m (4,918 ft)
Listing	List of mountains and hills of Japan by height List of volcanoes in Japan 100 Famous Japanese Mountains
Coordinates	43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E
Naming
Native name	雌阿寒岳 Meakan-dake
Geography
Mount Meakan Location of Mount Meakan in Japan.
Location	Hokkaidō, Japan
Parent range	Akan Volcanic Complex
Topo map	Geographical Survey Institute 25000:1 雌阿寒岳 25000:1 オンネト 50000:1 阿寒湖 50000:1 上足寄
Geology
Age of rock	Late Pleistocene-Holocene
Mountain type	stratovolcano
Volcanic arc/belt	Kurile arc
Last eruption	November 2008

Geography

There are two ponds in the crater, 赤沼 (Sekinuma, Red Pond) and 青沼 (Aonuma, Blue Pond).

Notes

1. Hunt, Paul (1988). "32: Climbing an Active Volcano: Meakan-dake (雌阿寒岳)". Hiking in Japan: An Adventurer's Guide to the Mountain Trails (First ed.). Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International. pp. 195–200. ISBN 0-87011-893-5.

External links

• Meakandake - Japan Meteorological Agency (in Japanese)
• "Meakandake: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan" (PDF). - Japan Meteorological Agency
• Meakan Dake - Geological Survey of Japan
• Akan: Global Volcanism Program - Smithsonian Institution