Bagana
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/25536
- Note
- "Bagana is an active volcano located in the centre of the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, the largest island of the Solomon group. It is the most active volcano in the country, occupying a remote portion of central Bougainville Island. It is one of Melanesia´s youngest and most active volcanoes.
Bagana is a massive symmetrical, roughly 1750-m-high lava cone largely constructed by an accumulation of viscous andesitic lava flows. The entire lava cone could have been constructed in about 300 years at its present rate of lava production. Eruptive activity at Bagana is frequent and is characterized by non-explosive effusion of viscous lava that maintains a small lava dome in the summit crater, although explosive activity occasionally producing pyroclastic flows also occurs. Lava flows form dramatic, freshly preserved tongue-shaped lobes up to 50-m-thick with prominent levees that descend the volcano´s flanks on all sides." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.02.2020) - Latitude
- -6.1399998664856
- Longitude
- 155.19500732422
- Elevation
- 1,750
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