The Queensland Guyot is an extinct volcanic seamount of the

Tasmantid Seamount Chain The Tasmantid Seamount Chain is a long chain of seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean. The chain consists of over 16 extinct volcanic peaks, many rising more than from the seabed. It is one of the two parallel seamount chains alongside the Ea ...

It is a basaltic volcano that erupted about 20,900,000 years ago, with survey data that indicates it rises about above the local sea floor to a minimum depth of . It is just to the north of the Britannia Guyots and is connected to them by a ridge that rises about from the sea floor. It was described as a

seamount A seamount is a large geologic landform that rises from the ocean floor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock. Seamounts are typically formed from extinct volcanoes that rise abru ...

in 1961. The waters above it are incorporated in the Central Eastern Marine Park, an

Australian marine park Australian marine parks (formerly Commonwealth marine reserves) are marine protected areas located within Australian waters and are managed by the Australian government. These waters generally extend from three nautical miles off the coast to the ...

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{{reflist Seamounts of the Tasman Sea Guyots Hotspot volcanoes Polygenetic volcanoes Miocene volcanoes Volcanoes of the Tasman Sea