Visoke

Mount Bisoke (also Visoke) is an active volcano in the Albertine Rift, the western arm of the East African Rift, in the Virunga Mountains. Although it lies on the boundary between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the summit is in Rwanda. It's about 35 kilometers northeast of the town of Goma, on the shores of Lake Kivu.

Bisoke, like all the other peaks in the Virunga Mountain Range, is a volcano formed by rift action on the East African Rift's growing divergent boundary, which is slowly bisecting the African plate. Bisoke has had two known eruptions, one in 1891 and the other in 1957. The most recent eruption, which occurred 11 kilometers north of the summit and resulted in the formation of two minor cones on the volcano's north flank, occurred 11 kilometers north of the summit. There is evidence that the geologically active area where this eruption occurred is still active, implying that further activity at Bisoke is likely. There are two crater lakes on the volcano, one of which is the largest in the range.

Height: 3,711 meters

Location: The border of Rwanda and DR Congo