Protector Seamounts, Antarctica

Submarine volcano · -55 m (-180 ft)

Protector Seamounts is a submarine volcano in Antarctica, -55 m (-180 ft) high. Its last known eruption: 1900 to 1963. NOAA records no significant eruption here.

Protector Seamounts on the map

Protector Seamounts 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: -55 m (-180 ft)
Country: Antarctica
Summit: 55.912° S, 28.167° W
Last known eruption: 1900 to 1963
Holocene activity known from: Historical
Smithsonian volcano number: 390140

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.

Earthquakes near Protector Seamounts Volcanic ash advisories on the live map

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.