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Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth
Rising 3,794 metres on Ross Island in Antarctica, Mount Erebus has been continuously active for decades.
Mount Erebus is famous for containing a persistent molten phonolite lava lake inside its summit crater, one of only a few long-lived lava lakes worldwide. Gas emissions rising through volcanic ice caves form hollow ice towers called ice fumaroles around its upper slopes. The volcano sits near the McMurdo scientific research station.
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- Rising 3,794 metres on Ross Island in Antarctica, Mount Erebus has been continuously active for decades. The figure is taken from USGS, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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