Eyjafjallajökull: Eyjafjallajökull (also known as Eyjafjöll) is located west of Katla volcano. It consists of an elongated ice-covered stratovolcano with a 2.5-kilometer-wide summit caldera. Fissure-fed lava flows occur on both the east and west flanks, but are more prominent on the western side.

Semeru: Java's highest volcanic peak, Mount Semeru, also called the Great Mountain, has erupted frequently over the last couple of centuries.

Arenal Volcano: Conical Volcán Arenal is the youngest stratovolcano in Costa Rica and one of its most active. The 1,670-meter-high andesitic volcano towers above the eastern shores of Lake Arenal, which has been enlarged by a hydroelectric project.

Mount Vesuvius: One of the world's most noted volcanoes, Vesuvius (Vesuvio), forms a dramatic backdrop to the Bay of Naples. Eight major explosive eruptions have taken place in the last 17,000 years, often accompanied by large pyroclastic flows and surges

Mt Etna: Mount Etna, towering above Catania, Sicily's second largest city, has one of the world's longest documented records of historical volcanism, dating back to 1500 BCE.

Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens was formed during nine eruptive periods, beginning about 40-50,000 years ago, and has been the most active volcano in the Cascade Range during the Holocene

Mount Damavand: The Damavand stratovolcano towers dramatically, 70 kilometers to the northeast, above Iran's capital city of Tehran and 70 kilometers south of the Caspian Sea. It is the highest volcano in the Middle East.

Ol Doinyo Lengai: The symmetrical Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only volcano known to have erupted carbonatite tephras and lavas in historical time. The prominent stratovolcano, known to the Maasai as "The Mountain of God," rises abruptly above the broad plain, south of Lake Natron in the Gregory Rift Valley.

Krakatoa: The renowned volcano Krakatau (frequently misstated as Krakatoa) lies in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra. Collapse of the ancestral Krakatau edifice, perhaps in 416 CE, formed a 7-kilometer-wide caldera.

Mount Fuji: The conical form of Fujisan, Japan's highest and most noted volcano, belies its complex origin. The modern postglacial stratovolcano is constructed above a group of overlapping volcanoes, remnants of which form irregularities on Fuji's profile.