List of volcanoes in the United Kingdom

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There are no active volcanoes in Great Britain or Ireland, but there are a few in British dependent territories. One of the largest is 1,370-metre (4,490 ft) Mount Belinda at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. on Montagu Island in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. It is within the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Mount Michael (805 m (2,641 ft)), at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. on Saunders Island, was active in 2005. Its 700-metre-diameter (2,300 ft) summit crater is thought to possibly contain an active lava lake, one of only a handful in the world.

Below is a list of extinct volcanoes in the United Kingdom.

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
meters feet Coordinates
Ardnamurchan - - Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. early Eocene: c.55 million years ago
Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh 251 824 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Carboniferous
Borrowdale Volcanics (Cumbria) - Silurian or earlier
Cheviot Hills 815 2674 - Ordovician
Cuillin Hills (on Isle of Skye) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Tertiary
Dundee Law extinct volcano in Dundee 500 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Ordovician
Edinburgh Castle castle rock - - Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Lower Carboniferous
Giant's Causeway - - Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Paleogene
Glen Coe Caldera - - Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Silurian
North Berwick Law 187 613 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Carboniferous
Snowdonia mountains in North Wales Ordovician