Antarctica · Transantarctic Mountains3,794 m (12,448 ft)Mount Erebus 3D Terrain Map & Relief Model
Interactive digital elevation model (DEM) for Mount Erebus. Tilt, rotate, and inspect high-altitude summit ridges, glacial cirques, and approach routes in high-resolution 3D WebGL cartography.
Coastal base near Shackleton's historic 1907 hut, situated beside Adélie penguin rookeries on the shore of McMurdo Sound.
Sheltered snow camp pitched beneath the shattered cliffs of Fang Ridge, used by the 1908 party to wait out blizzards.
A surreal polar volcanic plain dotted with towering hollow ice towers (ice fumaroles) exhaling warm geothermal steam.
The lip of the outer crater overlooking the glowing, churning lava lake in the inner pit, surrounded by deposits of volcanic anorthoclase crystals.
Total vertical rise from Cape Royds Staging Area (10m) directly to the summit crest.
DMS: 77°31′47″ S, 167°10′00″ E. Verified against alpine geodesy baselines.
The vertical drop to the lowest contour encircling the peak with no higher summit inside it.
Surrounded by lateral moraines, active icefalls, and high glaciated ridges feeding regional river systems.
Topographic Architecture of Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus is an active stratovolcano rising to 3,794 metres (12,448 ft) on Ross Island in Antarctica, making it the southernmost active volcano on Earth and the second-highest volcano in Antarctica. Famous for its persistent, bubbling phonolitic lava lake inside its inner crater and unique fumarolic ice towers (ice fumaroles), it was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross. In March 1908, a six-man party led by Professor Edgeworth David and including Douglas Mawson and Raymond Priestley during Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition achieved the heroic maiden first ascent, hauling sledges through ferocious polar blizzards to peer into the glowing volcanic abyss.