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Mount Cargill

Mount Cargill lightly covered with snow, Dunedin in foreground.

An extinct shield volcano (formed by a volcanic field) that last erupted around 10 million years ago. The rock from the eruption formed basalt columns on the eastern side of the mountain, the organ pipes.

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