* 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

According to Asama Shrine tradition, the earliest veneration of Konohanasakuya-hime at the base of Mount Fuji was in the 8th month of the 3rd year of the reign of Emperor Suinin.

Meanwhile, a UFO lands on Mount Fuji.

Godzilla is alive, and has just surfaced from Mount Fuji.

The highest point in the country is Mount Fuji ( Fujisan, also erroneously called Fujiyama ), a volcano dormant since 1707 that rises to 3, 776 meters above sea level in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Mount Fuji with a Shinkansen and Sakura blossoms in Shizuoka prefecture, in May

* Highest point: Mount Fuji – 3, 776 m

Mount Fuji seen from the Chuo Expressway

This new Sony Centre, designed by Helmut Jahn, is an eye-catching monolith of glass and steel featuring an enormous tent-like conical roof, its shape reportedly inspired by Mount Fuji in Japan, covering an elliptical central public space up to 102 metres across, and thus differing substantially from Hilmer & Sattler's original plan for the site.

Shinto sects include the mountain-worship sects, who focus on worshipping mountains like Mount Fuji, faith-healing sects, purification sects, Confucian sects, and Revival Shinto sects.

* May 16 – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.

** An avalanche on Mount Fuji kills 19 climbers.

** BOAC Flight 911 crashes in severe clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji near Tokyo, Japan, killing all 124 persons on board.

* December 16 – The last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins in Japan.

Mount Fuji, last erupts in December 1707.

* July 31 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji ( Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781 ).

Mount Fuji is 3. 776 kilometres ( 3, 776 metres ) high

It stood out prominently from surrounding hills because of the symmetry and extensive snow and ice cover of the pre-1980 summit cone, earning it the nickname " Fuji-san of America " (" Mount Fuji of America ").

The symmetrical appearance of St. Helens prior to the 1980 eruption earned it the nickname " Mount Fuji of America ".

Mount Fuji, from the 36 Views of Mount Fuji ( Hokusai ) | Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, color woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai

This area of tropical forest has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion with Mount Cameroon considered separately because as an active volcano it has a distinct environment from the other mountains.

sometimes referred to as ' the hinge of Africa ;' throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity ; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano

Mount Etna ( or Ætna ) is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily.

Hubble continued his research at the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories, where he remained active until his death.

Because of active tectonic uplifting, Mount Logan is still rising in elevation.

It features four ensembles of pitons ( volcanoes ) and mornes ( mountains ): the Piton Conil on the extreme North, which dominates the Dominica Channel ; Mount Pelée, an active volcano ; the Morne Jacob ; and the Pitons du Carbet, an ensemble of five extinct volcanoes covered with rainforest and dominating the Bay of Fort de France at.

Mount Ragang, an active volcano cone reaching 2, 815 meters, is the most isolated, while the greatest height is reached by Mount Kitanglad at 2, 896 meters.

Mount Baker ( Lummi: Qwú ’ mə Kwəlshéːn ; Nooksack: Kw ’ eq Smaenit or Kwelshán ), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States.

Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount Saint Helens.

* 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

Many volcanoes in the country are active, the most recent eruption being that of Mount Pinatubo on Luzon in 1991.

Mount Mayon is another of the active volcanoes and has the world's most perfectly-shaped cone.

Mountain ranges are found along the southern borders, such as the Caucasus ( containing Mount Elbrus, which at is the highest point in both Russia and Europe ) and the Altai ( containing Mount Belukha, which at the is the highest point of Siberia outside of the Russian Far East ); and in the eastern parts, such as the Verkhoyansk Range or the volcanoes of Kamchatka Peninsula ( containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at the is the highest active volcano in Eurasia as well as the highest point of Asian Russia ).

Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, which is at the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world.

Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe.

Mount Etna, located in the east of mainland Sicily with a height of, is the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world.

The backbone of the island is the Barisan Mountain chain, with the active volcano Mount Kerinci as the highest point at 3, 805 m ( 12, 467 ft ), located at about the midpoint of the range.

The northern peninsula contains active volcanoes such as Mount Lokon, Mount Awu, Soputan, and Karangetang.

Mount Erebus ( 3, 795 m ), a stratovolcano on

* 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

* 2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.

* Mount Pico ( Ponta do Pico ), the stratovolcano that occupies majority of the island of Pico

* January 4 – Major eruption of the stratovolcano Mount Parker ( Philippines ).

Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

* Mount Etna, a stratovolcano in Sicily.

An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707 – 08, Mount Fuji lies about south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day.

Mount Vesuvius (, ) is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.

Mount Ruapehu, or just Ruapehu, is an active stratovolcano at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand.

Mount Shasta has an estimated volume of which makes it the most voluminous stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc.

Over time, an ancestral Mount Shasta stratovolcano was built to a large but unknown height ; sometime between 300, 000 and 360, 000 years ago the entire north side of the volcano collapsed, creating an enormous landslide or debris avalanche, in volume.

* Mount Apo, a stratovolcano on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines

The geology of Parkdale is dominated by the geology of Mount Hood, a nearby stratovolcano about 8 miles to the south of the town.

Mount Baker, a stratovolcano, lies northwest of Concrete and Mount Shuksan lies almost directly north.

Mount Tambora ( or Tamboro ) is an active stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia.

Mount Erebus is classified as a polygenetic stratovolcano.

The 79 CE Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano looming adjacent to Naples, completely covered the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with pyroclastic surge deposits.

Mount Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania.

Mount Hood, called Wy ' east by the Multnomah tribe, is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of northern Oregon.

The park encompasses including all of Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano.

Ash plume from Mount Cleveland ( Alaska ) | Mt Cleveland, a stratovolcano.