Mount Tambora Caldera, Mount Tambora Tantular

Trekking mount tambora is a once a lifetime experience.

Tambora volcano images. The trail leads mainly trough lush and beautiful rainforest up to pos 5. Mount tambora or tamboro is an active stratovolcano which is a peninsula of the island of sumbawa in indonesiasumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust and tambora was formed by the active subduction zone beneath it. That means that most people can accomplish this trekking.

Paul hessels wikimedia commons. The youngest toba eruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 75000 years ago at the site of present day lake toba in sumatra indonesiait is one of the earths largest known explosive eruptionsthe toba catastrophe theory holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter of six to ten years and possibly a 1000 year long cooling episode. Mount tambora or tamboro is an active stratovolcano also known as a composite volcano on the island of sumbawa indonesia.

The huge caldera 37 miles 6 km in diameter and 3609 feet 1100 meters deep formed when the eruption removed tamboras estimated 13123 foot high 4000 m peak and the magma chamber. The 1815 eruption of indonesias mount tambora volcano was the most powerful in almost two millennia. It is the most recently known vei 7 event and the only unambiguously confirmed vei 7 eruption since the lake taupo eruption in about 180 ad.

The path is well maintained and mostly solid and there is no climbing needed. A view from the caldera rim of tambora taken june 2008. A rare visit to its imposing caldera requires stamina care and all the water you can carry.

Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust and tambora was formed by the active subduction zone beneath it. This raised mount tambora as high as 4300 m 14100 ft making it one of the tallest peaks in the indonesian archipelago in the 18th century. The eruption killed at least 10000 islanders and expelled enough ash rock and aerosols to block sunshine worldwide lower the global temperature and cause famine.

Mount tambora volcanic mountain on sumbawa island indonesia that in april 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. However it was a gentle eruption with a vei of 0 which means it was non explosive. The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in human history although some research shows ilopangos eruption between the 5th and 6th century may have been bigger with a volcanic explosivity index vei of 7.

Mount tambora is still active and minor lava domes and flows have been extruded on the caldera floor during the 19th and 20th centuries.