Yersey

Name

Yersey

Depth

3800 meters

Height

600 meters

Type

Submarine volcano

Location

Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia)

Status

Uncertain

Eruption

Unknown

Description

The Old sea charts described a reef, presumed to result from a submarine eruption, at a location in the southern Banda Basin where a 1929 survey as a Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World. A 600 meter high submarine ridge at this location is along trend with a ridge extending from the active island volcanoes of Batu Tara and Gunungapi Wetar.The existence of a submarine volcano at this location was concerned as questionable by Jezek