This list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes. Shield volcanoes are one of the three types of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow)
Active
Ecuador
- Alcedo, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- La Cumbre, Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands
- Sierra Negra, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Cerro Azul, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Wolf, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Marchena, Marchena Island, Galápagos Islands
- Darwin, Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands
- Galápagos Rift, Galápagos Islands
Other
- Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex (British Columbia, Canada)
- Barrier (Kenya)
- Bottom half of Mount Erebus (Ross Dependency, Antarctica)
- Erta Ale (Ethiopia)
- Bottom half of Mount Etna (Sicily, Italy)
- Mount Wrangell (Alaska)
- Mount Karthala (Comoros)
- Namarunu (Kenya)
- Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
- Mount Nyamuragira (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion, France)
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Këlauea, Hawaii, US
- Mauna Loa, Hawaii
- Mount Halla (Jeju Island, South Korea)
- Mascarin Peak (Marion Island, South Africa)
Dormant
Canada
United States
Costa Rica
Kenya
Other
Extinct
Antarctica
Other
- Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
- Banks Peninsula (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Bermuda Pedestal (Bermuda, United Kingdom)
- Dunedin Volcano (Dunedin, New Zealand)
- Kohala (Hawaii, United States)
- Kookooligit Mountains (St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, United States)
- Mormon Mountain (Arizona, United States)
- House Mountain (Arizona, United States)
- Hackberry Mountain (Arizona, United States)
- Lord Howe Island, (Australia)
- Mount Piton (Piton, Mauritius)
- Piton des Neiges (Réunion, France)
- Poike (Easter Island, Chile)
- PÃ
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- Rano Kau (Easter Island, Chile)
- Slieve Gullion (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- Terevaka (Easter Island, Chile)
- Topo Volcano, Azores, Portugal
- Tweed Volcano, Australia
- Mount Charter, Australia
- Mount Tor, Australia
- Mount Julia, Australia
- Mount Cripps, Australia
- Verkhovoy (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.)
Other planets and satellites
Mars & Venus
Io
Io, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons.
Pyroclastic shields
Bolivia
Nicaragua
Papua New Guinea
Other
See also
References