Snow volcano
North Kuril city district, Sakhalin region, Russia.
Description:
Snow volcano is an active volcano located on the island of Chirpa, one of the islands of the Black Brothers group, in the middle of the Great Range of the islands of the Kuril archipelago.
Snow is a gentle stratovolcano, its height is 395 meters, it is located in the southern part of the island.
Only four eruptions of this volcano have been recorded in history, in 1811, 1879, 1960 and 1982. At the moment, its activity is quickly fading away, and weak thermal and fumarole activity is recorded in the crater and on the slopes.
The volcano is named after the famous English industrialist G. J. Snow.
The flora and fauna of Vulcan is rather scarce, and is mainly represented by thickets of cedar stlanic, as well as birds, gulls and puffins nesting here.