Tavurvur is an active

stratovolcano A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and peri ...

near

Rabaul Rabaul () is a township in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea, on the island of New Britain. It lies about 600 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea. Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in ...

, on the island of

New Britain New Britain ( tpi, Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi the D ...

, in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the

Rabaul caldera The Rabaul caldera, or Rabaul Volcano, is a large volcano on the tip of the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, and derives its name from the town of Rabaul inside the caldera. The caldera has many sub-vents, Tavurvur being t ...

and lies on the eastern rim of the larger feature. An eruption of the volcano largely destroyed the nearby town of

in 1994. Mount Tavurvur is the most active volcano in Rabaul caldera, and erupted most recently on 29 August 2014. The correct pronunciation of the volcano's name is tah-VOOR-voor, according to the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory.

History

Gallery

File:NASA RabaulVolcano PIA01767.jpg, Space Radar Image of Rabaul Volcano File:Tavurvur.png, Tavurvur from

Low Earth orbit A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25. Most of the artificial objects in outer space are in LEO, with an altitude never m ...

File:Tavurvur volcano edit.jpg, Tavurvur's 2009 eruption File:Ash Plume from Tavurvur, Papua New Guinea.jpg, Ash plume from Tavurvur File:Dark Days Are Coming.jpg

References

External links

Volcano World: Tavurvur, Rabaul Caldera
* , the August 29th, 2014 eruption of Tavurvur captured by Phil McNamara. {{Authority control Stratovolcanoes of Papua New Guinea Subduction volcanoes Volcanoes of New Britain East New Britain Province Active volcanoes 1937 natural disasters 2014 natural disasters