Bananas for Scale

Volcanoes

Fire-breathing geological features, from dormant giants to explosive legends.

Mount Vesuvius

The volcano that buried Pompeii

Krakatoa

The eruption heard around the world

Olympus Mons

The largest volcano in the solar system

Yellowstone Caldera

A supervolcano hiding in plain sight

Mount St. Helens

The eruption that reshaped a mountain in minutes

Mauna Loa

Earth's largest active volcano by volume

Mount Etna

Europe's tallest and most active volcano

Mount Pinatubo

The Philippine volcano whose 1991 eruption cooled the entire planet

Kilauea

Hawaii's relentlessly active shield volcano

Mount Tambora

The volcano that erased summer from 1816

Cotopaxi

One of the world's highest active volcanoes, topped with a glacier