List of volcanoes in Australia


This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in Australia and its island territories. Note that the term volcano is used loosely as it can include groups of related volcanoes and vents that erupted at similar times with lava of related origin. The lists provided below are mainly volcanoes of Cenozoic aged, with some notable older volcanoes included. There are no volcanoes on the Australian mainland that have erupted since European settlement, but some volcanoes in Victoria, South Australia, and North Queensland were witnessed by Aboriginal people several thousand years ago. There are active volcanoes in the Heard and McDonald Islands.

Australian states

Queensland

New South Wales

Victoria

South Australia

Western Australia

There are no active or dormant volcanoes in Western Australia, although there are a number of extinct ones, and geological evidence of others. There are nineteen small extinct volcanoes in the valley of the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Kimberley also has a number of groups of hot springs, which may be connected with the volcanic activity that produced the extinct volcanoes. There are also deposits of basalt at Bunbury and Cape Gosselin.
NameElevationElevationLocationLast eruption
NamemetresfeetCoordinatesLast eruption
Argyle diamond mine———

Tasmania

NameElevationElevationLocationLast eruption
NamemetresfeetCoordinates
Table Cape181594—
Don Head71233—
The Nut143469—

Territories

Heard and McDonald Islands

Lord Howe Island

Australia Antarctic Territory

Norfolk Island

and neighbouring Nepean Island and Phillip Island are mountain top remnants of an elongated shield volcano.

Tasman Sea

Other