Fentale is a stratovolcano located in

Awash National Park Awash National Park is a national park in Ethiopia. Located at the border of Oromia state and Afar state, the park covers an area of 827 square kilometers, most of it lies at an altitude of 900 meters. Spanning across the southern tip of the ...

which was found in the

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. It is the highest point of Fentale

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. Philip Briggs describes Mount Fentale as being crowned by a 350 meter deep crater. Briggs concludes that this volcano "is responsible for the bleak hundred-year-old lava flows that cross the road immediately west of

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, and its steam vents can sometimes be seen displaying from the surrounding plains at night." The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th-century explorer

William Cornwallis Harris Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (baptised 2 April 1807 – died 9 October 1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter. Life and career Early life The son of James Harris of Wittersham, Kent, he entered Addiscombe Milita ...

, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842. By questioning the natives, Harris concluded that the most recent eruptions had taken place 30 years before his arrival.Buxton, ''Travels in Ethiopia'', second edition (London: Benn, 1957), p. 131

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* Fentale Fentale Ethiopian Highlands Geography of Oromia Region Calderas of Ethiopia {{Oromia-geo-stub

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