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Volcanoes of D'Entrecasteaux Islands (5 volcanoes)

Goodenough | Iamelele | Oiau (Dawson Strait Group) | Dobu (Dawson Strait Group) | Lamonai (Dawson Strait Group)
Goodenough
(volcanic field)
Goodenough (Nidula) Island is a roughly circular volcanic island with 26 km diameter and the westernmost of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands off the NE end of New Guinea. Goodenough volcano contains several young basaltic-andesite and andesitic eruptive centers which may only be a few... [more]

Iamelele
(lava domes)
Iamelele volcano (also called Iamalele or Iamalele-Fagululu) is a group of young lava domes and active thermal fields inland from Seymour Bay in the western part of Fergusson Island, in the center of the D'Entrecasteaux island group of Papua New Guinea.
The thermal areas ne... [more]

Oiau (Dawson Strait Group)
(pyroclastic cone)
Oiau is one of 3 volcanic centres of the Dawson Strait Group. It is located on the SE end of Fergusson island, on the peninsula between Kedidia Bay and Numanuma Bay. The volcano consists of a composite cone with a summit crater and has produced an obsidian lava flow of possible H... [more]

Dobu (Dawson Strait Group)
(stratovolcano)
Dobu is one of 3 volcanic centres of the Dawson Strait Group. It forms the small Dobu Island SE of Fergusson Island.
Dobu volcano consists of a composite cone with a summit crater and a small satellite cone. It, too, has produced obsidian lava flows. [more]

Lamonai (Dawson Strait Group)
(stratovolcano)
Lamonai is one of 3 volcanic centres of the Dawson Strait Group volcano. It is located on the SE end of Fergusson island inland from Sebutuia Bay. Lamonai volcano is a composite cone and has a steep-walled summit crater with strong thermal activity.
Rhyolitic lava flows are... [more]