Moai (seamount)

This article is about the submarine volcano. For other uses, see Moai (disambiguation).

The Moai Seamount is a submarine volcano, the second most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. It is east of Pukao seamount and west of Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.^[2] The Moai seamount is fairly young, having developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.

Moai
Height	>2,500 metres
Location
Location	Pacific Ocean, west of Easter Island
Coordinates	27.1°S 109.85°W / -27.1; -109.85[1]
Geology
Type	Submarine volcano
Volcanic arc/chain	Sala y Gómez ridge
Age of rock	Pleistocene
Last eruption	>100,000 BCE

The Moai seamount was named after the moai statues of neighbouring Easter Island.

See also

• Easter Island
• Sala y Gómez