Volcanodle
Puzzle #84 was Milbanke Sound Group.
Swindle, Lake, and Lady Douglas Islands in the Milbanke Sound area of the Fiord Ranges in west-central British Columbia contain cinder cones of Holocene age. Kitasu Hill on the western side of Swindle Island is a young basaltic cone that produced lava flows that extend to the north. Other postglacial vents identified by Dolmage (1921, 1924) are correlated by lithology only and may be as old as Tertiary (Baer, 1973; Holland, 1976).
Read about it at the Global Volcanism Program →
Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution
What the record says
Puzzle 84 ran on 1 Oct 2026 and the answer was Milbanke Sound Group, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - Canada; Region - North America Volcanic Regions; Type - pyroclastic-cone; Tectonic setting - intraplate; Elevation - <500; Rock type - basalt; Historically observed - not-observed. 1 of the 8 columns is blank in the source (Last eruption), so nobody could score it either way.
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
- Canada
- Region
- North America Volcanic Regions
- Type
- pyroclastic-cone
- Tectonic setting
- intraplate
- Elevation
- <500
- Last eruption
- Not recorded
- Rock type
- basalt
- Historically observed
- not-observed