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Haleakala Crater on the Island of Maui, Hawaii, United States of America, North America, Photographic Print

Haleakala, a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui, is considered dormant.

Hekla, a currently dormant stratovolcano, is one of the most active volcanoes in Iceland. The frequent clouds that surround the volcano resembled the short hooded cloak worn by Icelanders known as a hekla.

The volcano was called the “Gateway to Hell” during the Middle Ages by monks, and described in the voyages of Saint Brendan.

Traces of a 950 BC Hekla eruption have been identified in Scottish peat bogs, and in diminished growth tree rings in Ireland.

Mount Hood, a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of northern Oregon, is located 50 miles from Portland.

First named Hood by English explorers in 1792, Lewis and Clark were the first Americans to see the peak in 1805.

Mount Ibu is a stratovolcano located at the northwest coast of Halmahera island, Indonesia.

FYI - In Indonesian Gunung means mountain.

Iliamna, a glacier-carved stratovolcano, is located southwest 134 miles sw of Anchorage on the west side of lower Cook Inlet. Iliamna's fumaroles, or cracks in the Earth's crust, produce almost constant plumes of condensate and minor amounts of sulfurous gases.

Iztaccihuatl, Nahuatl for “white woman”, is the third highest mountain in Mexico, and connected to Popocatepetl by the high pass used by Cortés (Paso de Cortés) to invade the valley of Mexico in 1519.

The Aztec myth is that the warrior Popocatepetl returned from battle to find his love Iztaccíhuatl had perished from grief believing he had died. The gods covered them with snow, Popocatepetl continues to rage over his loss.