The world's northernmost active volcano is located in Norway. It last erupted in 1985, and a populated settlement is even built on top of one of its post glacial lava flows. What I am referring to is the Beerenberg volcano, which comprises the entirety of the island of Jan Mayen. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "Beerenberg4", is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, decreased image color temperature, sharpened image, text overlay, GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "Jan Mayen panorama", by: Sindre Skrede, SinWin, sinwin, 2012, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sinwin/, Photo link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sinwin/7975754622/ CC BY 2.0. "Beerenberg4" is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Youtube.com/GeologyHub If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] Anjar, Johanna & Akҫar, Naki & Larsen, Eiliv & Lyså, Astrid & Marrero, Shasta & Mozafari Amiri, Nasim & Vockenhuber, Christof. (2021). Cosmogenic Exposure Dating (Cl) of Landforms on Jan Mayen, North Atlantic, and the Effects of Bedrock Formation Age Assumptions on Cl Ages. Geosciences. 11. 390. 10.3390/geosciences11090390. CC BY 4.0. [2] Gjerløw E, Höskuldsson Á, Bartolini S, Biass S, Mossoux S, Gilbert J, Pedersen RB and Martí J (2022) The Volcanic Hazards of Jan Mayen Island (North-Atlantic). Front. Earth Sci. 10:730734. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.730734, CC BY 4.0. [3] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/controller.cfc?method=lameve, Used with Permission [4] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by Youtube.com/GeologyHub on Oct 5th, 2022. 0:00 A Norway Volcano 0:19 Beerenberg Volcano 1:28 Historical Eruptions 2:29 Tectonic Setting 3:21 2 Segments 3:51 Geologic History 5:05 Final Thoughts