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There are no active volcanoes on Australia's mainland. There is one active volcano on Australian territory, that being Big Ben on McDonald Island in the sub-Antarctic territory of Heard & McDonald Island.

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Australia's only active volcano is found on one of its external territories, that of Heard Island. Big Ben is a volcano which resumed eruptions in about 1993.

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