Mount Belinda

Mount Belinda
Mount Belinda
	False-color image of the ongoing eruption of Mount Belinda (September 23, 2005). The graph indicates the amount of radiant heat (in megawatts).
Highest point
Elevation	1,370 m (4,490 ft)
Prominence	1,370 m (4,490 ft)
Listing	Ribu
Coordinates	58°26′S 26°20′W / 58.433°S 26.333°W
Geography
Location	Montagu Island, South Sandwich Islands
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	2001 - 2007

Mount Belinda is a stratovolcano on Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands of the Scotia Sea. At 1,370 m (4,490 ft), Mount Belinda is the highest peak in the South Sandwich Islands, a part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.^[3]

Belinda was inactive until late 2001, when it erupted, the eruption lasting until 2007.^[4] The eruption produced large quantities of basaltic lava, melting the thick cover of ice that had accumulated while the volcano lay dormant, and "producing a marvelous 'natural laboratory' for studying lava-ice interactions relevant to the biology of extreme environments, as well as to processes believed to be important on Mars."^[2]

The activity throughout 2005 marked the highest levels yet. The increase in activity in the fall of 2005 produced an active 3.5-kilometre-long (2.2-mile) lava flow, extending from the summit cone of Mount Belinda to the sea. The flow spread northeast from the volcanic vent, and then became diverted due north by an arête.^[1] By late 2007, eruptive activity had ceased,^[1] and in 2010 the only activity was from scattered fumaroles and cooling lava.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Montagu Island". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Ongoing Eruption of Mount Belinda, NASA Earth Observatory". Archived from the original on 17 March 2010.
^ "SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT" (PDF). Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
^ Patrick, Matthew R.; Smellie, John L.; Harris, Andrew J. L.; Wright, Robert; Dean, Ken; Izbekov, Pavel; Garbeil, Harold; Pilger, Eric (2005). "First recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano (Montagu Island), South Sandwich Islands". Bulletin of Volcanology. 67 (5): 415–422. Bibcode:2005BVol...67..415P. doi:10.1007/s00445-004-0382-6. ISSN 0258-8900. S2CID 54187857.

External links

"Ongoing Eruption of Mount Belinda". NASA Earth Observatory. Archived from the original on 1 November 2004. Retrieved 2 May 2006.
"Mount Belinda Erupts". NASA Earth Observatory. Archived from the original on 21 October 2005. Retrieved 2 May 2006.
LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W., eds. (1990). "E. South Sandwich Islands". Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. Antarctic Research Series. Vol. 48. American Geophysical Union. p. 512 pp. doi:10.1029/AR048p0360. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
Peplow, Mark (2005). "Fire and ice caught on camera". Nature. doi:10.1038/news051121-11.

[GVP-1] "Montagu Island". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 25 June 2021.

[NatHazards-2] "Ongoing Eruption of Mount Belinda, NASA Earth Observatory". Archived from the original on 17 March 2010.

[3] "SOUTH GEORGIA & SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT" (PDF). Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands. Retrieved 16 June 2025.

[ResearchArticle-4] Patrick, Matthew R.; Smellie, John L.; Harris, Andrew J. L.; Wright, Robert; Dean, Ken; Izbekov, Pavel; Garbeil, Harold; Pilger, Eric (2005). "First recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano (Montagu Island), South Sandwich Islands". Bulletin of Volcanology. 67 (5): 415–422. Bibcode:2005BVol...67..415P. doi:10.1007/s00445-004-0382-6. ISSN 0258-8900. S2CID 54187857.

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