- Mount Nila
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Mount Nila Elevation 781 m (2,562 ft) [1] Location Location Banda Sea, Indonesia Coordinates 6°44′S 129°30′E / 6.73°S 129.50°E Geology Type Stratovolcano Last eruption 1968 Nila volcano forms completely an isolated 5 × 6 km wide of island with the same name in Banda Sea, Indonesia. The volcano comprises a low caldera with its rims breach into the sea surface on the south and the east side. The dominantly andesitic volcano contains a young forested cone at the elevation of 781 m height.[1]
Mount Nila is a stratovolcano, and caused the abandonment of a Rumadai village when it erupted in 1968.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Nila". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0605-06=. Retrieved 2006-12-29.
Categories:- Islands of Indonesia
- Volcanoes of the Lesser Sunda Islands
- Stratovolcanoes
- Volcanic calderas of Indonesia
- Active volcanoes of Indonesia
- Maluku Islands and New Guinea (Indonesia) geography stubs
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