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Ma'unga Terevaka is the largest, tallest (507.41 m (1,664.73 ft)) and youngest of three main extinct volcanoes that form Easter Island. Several smaller volcanic cones and craters dot its slopes, including a crater hosting one of the island's three lakes, Rano Aroi.
While Terevaka forms the bulk of Easter Island, the island has two older volcanic peaks: Poike which forms the eastern headland and Rano Kau the southern. Terevaka last erupted in the Pleistocene and is less than 400,000 years old. Its lava field at Roiho has been dated at between 110,000 and 150,000 years old. Terevaka can be climbed via a trail that starts next to the moai at Ahu Akivi.
Terevaka is the 12th most topographically isolated summit on Earth.













See also


List of volcanoes in Chile
List of islands by highest point
Topographic isolation




References


Karsten M. Haase; Peter Stoffers; C. Dieter Garbe-Schönberg (October 1997). "The Petrogenetic Evolution of Lavas from Easter Island and Neighbouring Seamounts, Near-ridge Hotspot Volcanoes in the SE Pacific". Journal of Petrology. 38 (6): 785–813. doi:10.1093/petrology/38.6.785. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
Kaneoka I, Katsui Y, 1985. K-Ar ages of volcanic rocks from Easter Island. Bull Volc Soc Japan, 30: 33–36.
Vezzoli L, Acocella V, 2009. Easter Island, SE Pacific: an end-member type of hotspot volcanism. Geol Soc Amer Bull, 121: 869–886.




External links


Education-Conservation-Research Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (non-profit)
Guide to Easter Island from the Easter Island Foundation
Old photos of Rano Aroi (upper right)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Hanga Roa
• Terevaka
• Rano Raraku
• Hanga Roa
• Easter Island
• Topographic isolation
• Rano Kau
• Geography of Easter Island
• Anakena
• Rapa Nui National Park
• Isla de Pascua (commune)