 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Pukao" seamount – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(November 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Pukao Seamount | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Summit depth | Below Sea level |
| Height | 2500+ m |
| Location | |
| Location | west ofEaster Island |
| Geology | |
| Type | Submarine volcano |
| Volcanicarc/chain | Sala Y Gomez ridge |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Last eruption | >100,000BCE |
ThePukao Seamount is asubmarine volcano, the most westerly in theEaster Seamount Chain orSala y Gómez ridge. To the east areMoai (seamount) and thenEaster Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.[1] The Pukao Seamount is fairly young, and believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as theNazca Plate floats over theEaster hotspot.
26°55′56″S110°14′56″W / 26.9323°S 110.2490°W /-26.9323; -110.2490
 | This article about a specific oceanic location or ocean current is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information. |
