🌋 Western Crater

Antarctica · Antarctica · 77.53°S, 167.12°E

Quick facts

Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	77.53°S, 167.12°E · view on map
Distance to the equator	8,631 km south of it
Solar time	UTC+11:15 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today	The sun does not set here today — polar day at 77.5° latitude.

Western Crater is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

Closest volcanic craters

Sheppard Crater — 30 km away
First Crater — 35 km away
Onepoto (volcanic crater) — 4,543 km away, in New Zealand
Rano Raraku — 6,915 km away, in Chile
Commerson Crater — 8,203 km away, in France

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

More volcanic craters in Antarctica

First Crater · Sheppard Crater.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

Volcanic Craters — tukuk.org/volcanic-craters

🌋 All volcanic craters

Profiles of volcanic craters — where each pit or caldera rim stands, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction.

🌍 Americas volcanic craters

7 volcanic craters across Americas.

🌍 Antarctica volcanic craters

3 volcanic craters across Antarctica.

🌍 Asia volcanic craters

2 volcanic craters across Asia.

🌍 Europe volcanic craters

8 volcanic craters across Europe.

🌍 Oceania volcanic craters

1 volcanic craters across Oceania.