List of shield volcanoes
This list of shield volcanoes includes active, dormant and extinct shield volcanoes.
Shield volcanoes are one of the three types of volcanoes. They have a short cone shape, and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity
Active
Ecuador
- Alcedo, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- La Cumbre, Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands
- Sierra Negra, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Cerro Azul [volcano (Galápagos)|Cerro Azul], Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Wolf, Isabella Island, Galápagos Islands
- Marchena, Marchena Island, Galápagos Islands
- Darwin, Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands
- Galápagos Rift, Galápagos Islands
Other
- Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex
- Barrier
- Bottom half of Mount Erebus
- Erta Ale
- Bottom half of Mount Etna
- Mount Wrangell
- Mount Karthala
- Namarunu
- Niuafo'ou
- Mount Nyamuragira
- Piton de la Fournaise
- Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua
- Kīlauea, Hawaii, US
- Mauna Loa, Hawaii
- Mount Halla
- Mascarin Peak
Dormant
Canada
- Heart Peaks
- Itcha Range
- Lava plateau of Level Mountain
United States
- Arlington Cone
- Belknap Crater
- Gillespie Volcano
- Haleakalā
- Hell's Half Acre
- House Mountain
- Hualālai
- Indian Heaven
- Larch Mountain
- Mauna Kea
- Medicine Lake Volcano
- Newberry Volcano
- Pelican Butte
- Shoshone Lava Field
- The Three Sisters
- Wapi Lava Field
Costa Rica
Kenya
Other
- La Grille
- Mt. Bar le Duc
- Queen Mary's Peak
- Rangitoto Island
- Santorini
- São Tomé
- Skjaldbreiður
- Kollóttadyngja
- Trölladyngja
- Mount Takahe
- Taveuni
- Karaca Dağ
Extinct
Antarctica
Other
- Ball's Pyramid of Australia is a volcanic plug, or an erosional remnant of a shield volcano.
- Banks Peninsula
- Bermuda Pedestal
- Dunedin Volcano
- Kohala
- Kookooligit Mountains
- Mormon Mountain
- House Mountain
- Hackberry Mountain
- Lord Howe Island,
- Mount Piton
- Piton des Neiges
- Poike
- Pūhāhonu, Hawaii – the largest shield volcano on Earth by volume
- Rano Kau
- Slieve Gullion
- Terevaka
- Topo Volcano, Azores, Portugal
- Tweed Volcano, Australia
- Mount Charter, Australia
- Mount Tor, Australia
- Mount Julia, Australia
- Mount Cripps, Australia
- Verkhovoy
Other planets and satellites
Mars & Venus
IoIo, a moon of Jupiter, has several volcanoes that spew sulphur. Some of these include Pele and Tohil Mons.