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Mount Ontake
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mountain in Nagano and Gifu Prefectures, Japan
Key facts
- Elevation
- 3,067 m (10,062 ft)
- Prominence
- 1,712 m (5,617 ft)
- Listing
- Ultra , Ribu, 100 famous mountains in Japan
- Location
- Gifu and Nagano , Chūbu region , Japan
- Topo map s
- Geographical Survey Institute , 25000:1 御嶽山, 50000:1 御嶽山
- Mountain type
- Stratovolcano
- Last eruption
- October 2014
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sacred mountain
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Otaki
- Elevation
- 3067
- Material used
- andesite
- Image
- Kiso Ontake.jpg
- Significant event
- 2014 Mount Ontake eruption
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- Mount Ontake
- name in kana
- おんたけさん
- topographic prominence
- 1712
- located in/on physical feature
- Honshu
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san), also referred to as Mount Kiso Ontake (木曽御嶽山, Kiso Ontake-san), is the 14th-highest mountain and second-highest volcano in Japan (after Mount Fuji) at 3,067 m (10,062 ft). It is included in Kyūya Fukada's 1964 book 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Ontake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.