Mount Fentale

Fentale is a stratovolcano located in Awash National Park which was found in the Oromia Region, Ethiopia. It is the highest point of Fentale woreda.

Fentale
A vertical aerial photo of the Fentale volcanic complex
Highest point
Elevation2,007 m (6,585 ft)[1][2]
ListingVolcanoes of Ethiopia
Coordinates8°58′30″N 39°55′48″E[1]
Geography
Fentale is located in Ethiopia
Fentale
Fentale
Location in Ethiopia
LocationOromia Region, Ethiopia
Geology
Mountain typeStratovolcano
Last eruption1820 (?)[1]

Philip Briggs describes Mount Fentale as being crowned by a 350 m (1,150 ft) deep crater. Briggs concludes that this volcano "is responsible for the bleak hundred-year-old lava flows that cross the road immediately west of Metehara, and its steam vents can sometimes be seen displaying from the surrounding plains at night."[3]

The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th-century explorer William Cornwallis Harris, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842. By questioning the natives, Harris concluded that the most recent eruptions had taken place 30  years before his arrival.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Fentale". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  2. "Topographic map of Mount Fentale". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  3. Briggs, Philip (2002). Ethiopia: The Bradt Travel Guide (3rd ed.). Bradt: Chalfont St Peters. p. 335. ISBN 9781841621289.
  4. Buxton (1957). Travels in Ethiopia (2nd ed.). London: Benn. p. 131.
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