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Unclimbed?

It’s really unclimbed?? Where is the citation?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.16.1.242 (talk) 20:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hotspot volcanoes?

The islands seem to be almost along the same line as a transform fault to the northwest. That, and the fact that the most recent (and it seems the only) known eruptions happened on an island near the middle of the group, instead at one end or the other, seems to indicate that the island might not be the result of a mantle plume. Plus, the Global Volcanism Program's entries on the volcanoes says that their tectonic setting is a rift zone. ZFT (talk) 21:40, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@ZFT: Some hotspots occur along rift zones (e.g. Iceland) where eruptions can take place at volcanoes in no recognizable order. All of the Balleny Islands may have had volcanic activity in recorded history; Young Island has active fumaroles, Buckle Island had an eruption in 1899 and Sturge Island may have had an eruption in 2001. The Balleny Islands are also poorly studied due to their remote location. With that being said, it's possible eruptions may have occurred under the ice caps of Young and Sturge islands without being noticed; none of the Balleny Islands are monitored. Volcanoguy 10:17, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]