The SE side of Osorezan is seen here above Mutsu Bay is the Shimokita Peninsula in northernmost Honshu. It contains a 3-km-wide caldera partly occupied by a shallow lake that drains through the north caldera wall.

Copyrighted photo by Tadahide Ui (Japanese Quaternary Volcanoes database, RIODB, http://riodb02.ibase.aist.go.jp/strata/VOL_JP/EN/index.htm and Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://www.gsj.jp/).

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Keywords: stratovolcano

Osorezan