List of Volcanoes Having Displayed Past or Present Lava Lake Activity
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| Volcano | Location |
|---|---|
| Persistent or near-persistent lava lakes during recent decades | |
| Erta Ale | Ethiopia |
| Mount Erebus | Antarctica (Ross Island) |
| Kīlauea (two lava lakes in both Halemaʻumaʻu and Pu'u O'o craters) | Hawaii (Big Island) |
| Nyiragongo (the largest one in the past century) | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Recent intermittent lava lake activity | |
| Masaya | Nicaragua |
| Ambrym (two lava lakes in both Benbow and Marum craters) | Vanuatu (Ambrym Island) |
| Villarrica | Chile |
| Karthala | Comoros (Grande Comore) |
| Piton de la Fournaise (small temporary lava pond in Dolomieu crater) | Réunion Island |
| Ol Doinyo Lengai (only occurrence of carbonatite lava pond as it is the only active volcano in the world emitting carbonatite lava) | Tanzania |
| Unconfirmed lava lake activity | |
| Telica (possibly in 1971 and 1999–2000) | Nicaragua |
| Tungurahua (possibly in 1999) | Ecuador |
| Tofua (possibly in 2004 and 2006) | Tonga (Tofua Island) |
| Lava lake activity suggested by satellite remote-sensing data | |
| Mount Michael | South Sandwich Islands (Saunders Island) |
| Mount Belinda | South Sandwich Islands (Montagu Island) |
| Mawson Peak | Heard Island |
| Past lava lake activity (historical times) | |
| Mount Matavanu (during the 1905-1911 eruption) | Samoa (Savai'i Island) |
| Nyamuragira (lava lake located within the summit caldera, confirmed for the first time in 1921, drained in 1938, and temporary lava pond in the Kituro cone on the SW flank, during the 1948 eruption) | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Capelinhos (in 1958, a Surtseyan eruption) | Azores (Faial Island) |
| Surtsey Island (in 1964, during the 1963-67 eruption which led to the formation of the island) | Iceland |
| Tolbachik, part of the Klyuchevskaya volcanic complex (last observation of lava lake activity in 1964) | Russia (Kamchatka) |
| Etna (in 1974) | Italy (Sicily) |
| Ardoukôba (in 1978) | Djibouti |
| Stromboli (in 1986 and 1989) | Italy (Aeolian Islands) |
| La Cumbre (in 1995) | Galapagos (Fernandina Island) |
| Pacaya (in 2000 and 2001) | Guatemala |
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