Antipodes Island
Campbell Plateau Volcanic Province, New Zealand. This page separates the permanent volcano catalogue, historical eruption records, and selective weekly activity reports.
- Coordinates
- 49.68° S, 178.78° E
- Elevation
- 359 m
- Last recorded eruption
- Not supplied
- Historical eruption records
- 0
- Primary type
- Pyroclastic cone(s)
- Evidence
- Not supplied
- GVP database
- 5.4.0
- Catalogue revision
- Revision 1
Volcano profile
- Volcanic landform
- Minor
- Tectonic setting
- Not supplied
- Geologic epoch
- Pleistocene
- Major rock type
- Not supplied
- Region
- Southern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Subregion
- Campbell Plateau Volcanic Province
Geological summary
The isolated, uninhabited Antipodes Islands are located in the south Pacific, 770 km SE of New Zealand. Volcanism has been dominantly pyroclastic, and the presence of well-preserved scoria cones suggests a Holocene age (LeMasurier and Thomson, 1990). The most recent eruptions occurred on the cone forming Mount Galloway and Mount Waterhouse at the center of 4-km-wide main island. Marine erosion has exposed sections through tuff cones at Perpendicular Head and Albatross Point at the NE and SE tips of the island, respectively. Radiometric dates indicated basalts that are younger than 1 million years (250-500 ka with high uncertainty W of Reef Point), and Cullen (1969) also speculated that volcanism may have begun in the Tertiary and persisted "almost to the present day."
Separate activity dataset
Weekly volcanic activity reports
Smithsonian/USGS weekly reports are selective and preliminary. They are not a comprehensive list of all eruptions or volcanic activity.
No weekly report appears on this page. Absence from the weekly report does not establish an absence of volcanic activity.
Historical catalogue records
Eruption history
Dates can be approximate, incomplete, or BCE. These are historical catalogue observations, not a statement about present activity.
No historical eruption records appear on this page.
Source and attribution
Source: Data: Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Volcanoes of the World.
View the original Smithsonian GVP recordGlobal Volcanism Program, 2026. Volcanoes of the World 5.4.0.
The GVP database is scientific documentation that changes as evidence is reviewed. Historical dates may be approximate or uncertain. This platform is not an official emergency-warning service. This entry is from GVP's preliminary Pleistocene volcano list and may be revised.
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- Source updated
- Not supplied
- Retrieved
- 11 Oct 2026, 13:07 UTC
- GVP database version
- 5.4.0
- Catalogue revision
- 1
Source-update and retrieval times describe this catalogue record. Each weekly report carries its own publication date and preliminary status.