Beerenberg

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Beerenberg <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; text-align: center;" colspan=2>Image:Beerenberg JanMayen.JPG Beerenberg, August 2005</td></tr>
Elevation	2,277 metres (7,470 feet)
Location	Jan Mayen, Norway <tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">71°4′36″N, 8°9′52″E</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Type</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">stratovolcano</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Last eruption</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">1985</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Translation</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Bears Mountain (Dutch)</td></tr>

Beerenberg

<tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; text-align: center;" colspan=2>Image:Beerenberg JanMayen.JPG
Beerenberg, August 2005</td></tr>

Elevation

2,277 metres (7,470 feet)

Location

Jan Mayen, Norway

<tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Coordinates</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">71°4′36″N, 8°9′52″E</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Type</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">stratovolcano</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Last eruption</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">1985</td></tr><tr><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; border-right: 1px solid #999966; background: #e7dcc3; width: 85px">Translation</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid #999966; width: 220px">Bears Mountain (Dutch)</td></tr>

Beerenberg is the world's northernmost active volcano located at Jan Mayen.

The volcano forms the north-eastern end of Jan Mayen, which is ringed by high cliffs. Beerenberg is a large, 2277 m high stratovolcano covered with a glacier. Its summit crater is one km wide. Numerous cinder cones were erupted along flank fissures.

It is composed primarily of basaltic lava flows with minor amounts of tephra.

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