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Remote Mount Michael volcano hosts persistent lava lake
By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
3 July 2019
This satellite image has been coloured to highlight the lava lake
Satellite pictures confirm there is a persistent lava lake inside the crater of a remote British Overseas Territory (BOT) volcano.
Few enduring lava lakes are known globally; the one at Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the South Atlantic may be only the eighth such example.
The 990m-high stratovolcano's setting makes it extremely difficult to climb.
Pictures taken from space are really therefore the only way of looking inside the opening at the summit.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48852670