Gunungapi Wetar is an isolated

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island to the north of Wetar island in the

Banda Sea The Banda Sea (, , ) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera Sea, Halmahera and Ceram Seas. It is about ...

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. The island, a stratovolcano, only extends 239 m above sea level, but the total height of the summit from the

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is over 5000 m. Explosions in 1512 and 1699 are the only historical eruptions of the volcano.

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