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Darai Hills volcano

Volcanic field 500 m / 1640 ft
Papua New Guinea, -6.8°S / 143.08°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Darai Hills volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene) No recent earthquakes
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Background:

A group of Pleistocene cones and craters are scattered over a limestone karst plateau SE of Mt. Bosavi (Mackenzie and Johnson 1984).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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