Vulcano

Vulcano is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, containing one of the four active volcanos in Italy. Vulcano is the southernmost of the Aeolian Islands.

Location: 38.4 degrees N, 15.0 degrees E

Elevation: ca 1,600 feet (500 meters)

For the Romans, the island of Vulcano was the habitation of the firegod Vulcan. The Greek firegod Hephaestos maintained his chthonic forge on the island of Lesbos.

The older stratovolcano cones have partially collapsed in calderas . The youngest cone on the island, Vulcanello, began to form in an eruption of 183 BCE.

Vulcano has been quiet since the eruption of 1888-90.

Vulcano has contributed the words for 'volcano' in most modern languages.

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