Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an ...

Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands — a former Soviet nuclear submarine base — was responsible for the mysterious 1831 ...

The location of a giant volcanic eruption in 1831 has eluded scientists for nearly 200 years, but now they have solved the ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that has puzzled scientists for almost 200 years has finally been solved.

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According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan.