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Central Island Volcano - John Seach
(Crocodile Island)
Kenya
3.50 N, 36.04 E
summit elevation 550 m
Stratovolcano
Central Island is located in Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.
The island has 15 craters and cones with three occupied by lakes.
One group of craters appears to be more recent with ropy lava and scoriae showing little weathering.
Fumarolic activity is present on the rim of the central crater with sulphur covering the walls.
All beaches on the island are less than 12 m above sea level which indicates the island structure is recent,
due to the fact that water levels have been falling in the lake from a maximum 76 m above the present level.
Central Island is vegetated by spiny grass and thorn bush.
Central Island Volcano Eruptions
1974?, ~1000 AD