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This photo is from Photo Gallery: Antarctica
Mount Melbourne, Antarctica
Photograph courtesy Michael Van Woert, NOAA NESDIS, ORA
In the midst of a frigid Antarctic plain rises 8,963-foot-high (2,732-meter-high) Mount Melbourne, an active volcano cone that may have erupted as recently as the 18th or 19th century. More than 30 active and inactive volcanoes dot the frozen continent.