The two active volcanoes in Australia are in the Australian Antarctic Territory, on Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, 4000km away from Perth to the south-west. Heard Island - Big Ben. The Heard Island volcano is nicknamed Big Ben. It's around 25km across, and Mawson Peak, its highest point, towers 2745m above sea level.. Even today a new eruption is not impossible. Like the mountains, the volcanoes are all on the eastern side of Australia, in a series of chains running north to south, starting 500 km of the northeastern coast (the Maer islands) to Tasmania in the south. The total length is 4400 km. That is a sizable sequence!
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In Australia. This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories. Note that the term volcano is used loosely as it can include groups of related volcanoes and vents that erupted at similar times with lava of related origin. The lists provided below are mainly volcanoes of Cainozoic aged, with some.. Published: May 24, 2016 4:09pm EDT. Mt Elephant, at 190m, is the tallest scoria cone in western Victoria. Map of the Newer Volcanics Province of southeast Australia, Australia's most recent.
