This photo taken on 12 August 2002 shows an ash plume rising from Torishima volcano, a 2.7-km-wide island in the southern Izu Islands. The unvegetated Iwoyama cone, seen here from the south, was constructed during an eruption in 1939 within a 1.5-km-wide caldera. The volcano is also referred to as Izu-Torishima to distinguish it from the several other Japanese island volcanoes called Torishima ("Bird Island").

Photo courtesy of Japan Meteorological Agency, 2002.

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Izu-Torishima