Mount Adatara

Mount Adatara
安達太良山
File:Mount Adatara.JPG Viewed fom the SE.
Highest point
Elevation
Coordinates
Geography
Mount Adatara Fukushima Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Parent range	Ōu Mountains
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	September 1996

Mount Adatara (安達太良山, Adatara-yama) is a stratovolcano in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

It is located about 15 kilometres southwest of the city of Fukushima and east of Mount Bandai. Its last known eruption was in 1996. An eruption in 1900 killed 72 workers at a sulfur mine located in the summit crater.

File:Adatara Volcano Relief Map, SRTM-1.jpg

Relief Map of Adatara Volcano.

The mountain is actually multiple volcanoes forming a broad, forested massif. It abuts Mount Azuma, a dormant volcano to the north. The peak is called Minowa-yama. It is the highest peak in the Adatara range, which stretches about 9 km in a north-south direction.

The active summit crater is surrounded by hot springs and fumaroles. Sulfur mining was carried out in the 19th century, and 72 mine workers were killed in an eruption in 1900. Poems about Mount Adatara by Kōtarō Takamura from his book "Chieko-sho" helped make it famous.

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External links

• Adatarayama - Japan Meteorological Agency (Japanese)
• Adatarayama: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan PDF - Japan Meteorological Agency
• Adatara Yama - Geological Survey of Japan
• Adatarayama: Global Volcanism Program - Smithsonian Institution