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Name
Yersey

Depth
3800 meters

Height
600 meters

Type
Submarine volcano

Location
Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia)

Status
Uncertain

Eruption
Unknown

Description
The Old sea charts described a reef, presumed to result from a submarine eruption, at a location in the southern Banda Basin where a 1929 survey as a Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World. A 600 meter high submarine ridge at this location is along trend with a ridge extending from the active island volcanoes of Batu Tara and Gunungapi Wetar.The existence of a submarine volcano at this location was concerned as questionable by Jezek

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