Brimstone Island, New Zealand

Submarine volcano · -2,000 m (-6,562 ft) · Kermadec Is

Brimstone Island is a submarine volcano in New Zealand, -2,000 m (-6,562 ft) high. NOAA records no significant eruption here.

Brimstone Island on the map

Brimstone Island and the volcanoes within 300 km, colored by when each last erupted.

Since 1964
1900 to 1963
1800s
AD 1 to 1799
Before AD 1, or undated

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The volcano

Type: Submarine volcano
Elevation: -2,000 m (-6,562 ft)
Country: New Zealand
Region: Kermadec Is
Summit: 30.230° S, 178.920° W
Last known eruption: Unknown
Holocene activity known from: Uncertain

Significant eruptions

NOAA records eruptions that killed, did damage, were very large, or set off a tsunami or earthquake.

None on record.

Around it

The volcanoes within 300 km.

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Sources

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.