Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia is a field of submarine volcanoes located south-west of

Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ...

. It includes the vent of

Ferdinandea Ferdinandea Island (also Graham Island, Graham Bank or Graham Shoal; french: Ile Julia) is a certain volcanic island/seamount in the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Sicily that has, on more than one occasion, risen above the Mediterranean v ...

, otherwise known as Graham Island, which erupted and emerged above sea level in 1831, and encompasses a larger volcano known as

Empedocles Empedocles (; grc-gre, Ἐμπεδοκλῆς; , 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the ...

. The last recorded eruption was in 1867, from a vent named Pinne. There was mild

seismic Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other ...

unrest at

in 2000 - 2002. At its highest, Campi Flegrei comes to 8 meters (26 feet) below sea level.

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Submarine volcanoes Volcanoes of Italy Former islands from the last glacial maximum {{marine-geo-stub

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