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Volcanoes of the World

All 2,817 volcanoes from Wikipedia's per-country volcano lists (about 100 lists spanning every continent, the oceans and Antarctica), one row each: country, volcano type, elevation in meters and feet (negative for submarine volcanoes, the missing unit converted from the other), numeric latitude and longitude, and the last eruption both as written (1996, Pleistocene, 6050 BC, 210,000 years ago) and as a numeric years-ago column, with calendar years, BC/AD, before-present, ka and million-year forms all parsed and epoch-only entries honestly left NA. Every linked volcano article's infobox fills in whatever its list table lacked.
2,817 rows 1 file last pulled 2026-09-01
Volcanoes 2,817 rows × 10 columns
NameCountryTypeElevation_MElevation_FtLatitudeLongitudeLast_EruptionLast_Eruption_Years_AgoVolcano_URL

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What is the Volcanoes of the World dataset?

All 2,817 volcanoes from Wikipedia's per-country volcano lists (about 100 lists spanning every continent, the oceans and Antarctica), one row each: country, volcano type, elevation in meters and feet (negative for submarine volcanoes, the missing unit converted from the other), numeric latitude and longitude, and the last eruption both as written (1996, Pleistocene, 6050 BC, 210,000 years ago) and as a numeric years-ago column, with calendar years, BC/AD, before-present, ka and million-year forms all parsed and epoch-only entries honestly left NA. Every linked volcano article's infobox fills in whatever its list table lacked.

How big is the Volcanoes of the World dataset?

2,817 rows in one CSV file, with 10 columns in total: Name, Country, Type, Elevation_M, Elevation_Ft, Latitude, Longitude, Last_Eruption, Last_Eruption_Years_Ago, Volcano_URL.

Where does the data come from?

It is built by programmatically scraping en.wikipedia.org, last pulled on 2026-09-01. Datasets are versioned; older versions stay downloadable.

Is the dataset free to download?

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Can I see the code that built this dataset?

Yes. The exact Python scraper that built it is viewable on the dataset page by any signed-in member, so every number is reproducible.

Can the data contain errors?

Automated scraping leaves room for error and the underlying sources change over time, so no version is guaranteed accurate or complete. If a number matters, verify it against the original source.

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