is a

volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates ...

located on the

Shiretoko Peninsula is located on the easternmost portion of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, protruding into the Sea of Okhotsk. It is separated from Kunashir Island, which is now occupied by Russia, by the Nemuro Strait. The name Shiretoko is derived from the ...

in Hokkaidō, Japan. The mountain consists of non-alkali mafic rocks and

andesite Andesite () is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition. In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between silica-poor basalt and silica-rich rhyolite. It is fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic in texture, and is composed predomina ...

. Mount Shiretoko is in Shari town, in Shari District of Abashiri Subprefecture. Shiretokodake Relief Map, SRTM-1

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Shiretoko Dake
- Geological Survey of Japan * Mountains of Hokkaido Volcanoes of Hokkaido Stratovolcanoes of Japan Pleistocene stratovolcanoes {{Hokkaido-geo-stub

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