Tarakan Lamo Volcano

Indonesia / Maluku Utara / Ternate /
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Tarakan Lamo has a summit at 318 m (1,043 ft) asl.
Tarakan volcano has two large cinder cones that are located near the shore of Galela Bay NE of Dukono volcano. Tarakan Lamo and Tarakan Itji (large and small Tarakan) have well-formed summit craters 800 and 500 m in diameter and 160 and 125 m deep, respectively. The cinder cones lie between Galela Bay and Lake Galela, whose bottom lies below sea level. Supriatna (1980) mapped Tarakan as a basaltic volcano of Holocene age.

www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0608-001
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarakan_(volcano)
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Coordinates:   1°49'50"N   127°49'39"E

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