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Friday, May 18, 2012
A new NASA satellite image reveals a fresh lava flow on Bagana volcano's eastern flank. It is unknown when the eruption started, but comparison with o...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Darwin VAAC reported that ash-and-steam plumes from Pago rose to an altitude of 13.7 km (45,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted 75 km NE.
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Volcanoes of Papua New Guinea (67 volcanoes)
Northeast of New Guinea (13 volcanoes):
Kairinu | Blup Blup | Kadovar | Bam | Boisa | Manam | Karkar | unnamed | Yomba | Long Island | Umboi | Sakar | Ritter Island
New Britain Island (21 volcanoes):
Langila | unnamed | Narage | Μundua | Garove | Bola | Garbuna | Garua | Dakataua | Lolo | Pago | Buru | unnamed | Walo | Karai (Sulu Range) | Hargy | Lolobau | Bamus | Ulawun | Tavui | Rabaul (Tavurvur)
New Guinea (15 volcanoes):
Bosavi | Doma Peaks | Giluwe | Crater Mountain | Yelia | Koranga | Madilogo | Musa River | Lamington | Managlase | Hydrographers Range | Victory | Waiowa | Sassagara | Trafalgar
North Solomons Province (7 volcanoes):
Tore | Balbi | Billy Mitchell | Bagana | Bakanovi | Takuan | Loloru
All active volcanoes of Papua New Guinea are listed. Papua New Guinea has the most active volcanoes in the South West Pacific. Its most active volcanoes include Manam, Karkar, Lamington, Langila, Ulawun, Rabaul and Bagana volcano.
The volcanoes of Papua New Guinea are found in 2 principal volcanic arcs, the 1000 km long Bismarck Arc stretching WNW-ESE at north of New Guinea and New Britain Island, from the north coast of New Guinea near the border with Indonesia, to Bougainville Island in the east. This arc is a result of the northward subducting Solomon Sea beneath the Bismarck Sea plate. The second volcanic arc forms the volcanoes on the south-eastern peninsula of New Guinea and is caused by the northward subduction of the Coral Sea. |