Pukao (seamount)
Submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain
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The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter 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 the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.
| Pukao Seamount | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Summit depth | Below Sea level |
| Height | 2500+ m |
| Location | |
| Location | west of Easter Island |
| Geology | |
| Type | Submarine volcano |
| Volcanic arc/chain | Sala Y Gomez ridge |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Last eruption | >100,000 BCE |
