9 Active Volcanoes Around The World

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1. Barren Island, Andaman Islands, India Bet you didn’t know that India had active volcanoes.

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3. Mount Etna, Sicily This is a stratovolcano in Italy that is also active.

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5. Mount Yasur, Vanuatu This volcano is largely unvegetated.

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6. Mount Merapi, Indonesia Another stratovolcano, it has erupted regularly since 1548.

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8. Pacaya, Guatemala This volcano first erupted 23,000 years ago.

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