Volcanodle
Puzzle #23 was Milna.
Milna (or Mil'na) is the southernmost volcano on Simushir Island in the central Kuriles, and includes the Goriaschaia Sopka lava dome on the NW flank. The outer flanks of the steep-sided 1500-m-high volcano are dissected by deep gullies. A 3-km-wide caldera breached widely to the SE was formed during the Pleistocene and became a center of glaciation.
Read about it at the Global Volcanism Program →
Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution
What the record says
Puzzle 23 ran on 1 Aug 2026 and the answer was Milna, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - Russia; Region - Northwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions; Type - stratovolcano; Tectonic setting - subduction; Elevation - 1500-3000; Last eruption - 20th-century; Rock type - andesite; Historically observed - observed.
Beyond the grid the record adds Largest recorded eruption - VEI 3; Holocene eruptions recorded - 6 eruptions.
Volcanodle builds its record from Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution (Venzke, E. (ed.), Volcanoes of the World, volcano.si.edu). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: A verbatim excerpt of the volcano's GVP Geological Summary. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Country
- Russia
- Region
- Northwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Type
- stratovolcano
- Tectonic setting
- subduction
- Elevation
- 1500-3000
- Last eruption
- 20th-century
- Rock type
- andesite
- Historically observed
- observed
Also on the record
- Largest recorded eruption
- VEI 3
- Holocene eruptions recorded
- 6 eruptions