{"id":22706,"date":"2025-03-05T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22706"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:00:33","slug":"mount-erebus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-erebus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Erebus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mount Erebus Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Beneath Antarctica\u2019s Mount Erebus, a hidden world of volcanic ice caves harbors thriving microbial life, offering a glimpse into how life could exist on alien worlds.<\/p>\n<h2>About Mount Erebus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the<strong> world\u2019s southernmost active volcano.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located on the western half of <strong>Ross Island, off the coast of Antarctica<\/strong> in the <strong>Ross Sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>glaciated<\/strong> intraplate stratovolcano, <strong>part of the Ring of Fire <\/strong>that encircles the Pacific Ocean basin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was discovered in 1841 by the British explorer Sir James Clark Ross, who named it after his ship, the Erebus.<\/li>\n<li>Its summit is 12,448 feet (3,794 meters) above sea level, making it the <strong>second tallest volcano in Antarctica, after Mount Sidley.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also<strong> one of only a few volcanoes <\/strong>in the world that contain an <strong>active lava lake.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>lava <\/strong>within the lava lake is <strong>alkalic<\/strong> in composition. <strong>Alkalic lava is common in rift volcanoes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It has been <strong>continuously active since 1972<\/strong>. <strong>Most eruptions are small and Strombolian<\/strong> in character, tossing bombs onto the crater rim.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>largest Antarctic settlement\u2014McMurdo Station, operated by<\/strong> the <strong>United States<\/strong>\u2014stands <strong>within sight of the volcano <\/strong>(about 40 kilometers or 25 miles away).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mount Erebus FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is Mount Erebus situated?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is located on the western half of Ross Island, off the coast of Antarctica in the Ross Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Is Mount Erebus in the Ring of Fire?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mount Erebus is part of the Ring of Fire that encircles the Pacific Ocean basin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is Mount Erebus still active?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mount Erebus is the world\u2019s southernmost active volcano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/antarcticas-volcano-underground-ecosystem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Erebus, the world&#8217;s southernmost active volcano, is located in Antarctica, known for its lava lake, icy slopes, and continuous volcanic activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}