Mount Tambora

West Nusa Tenggara · Indonesia

Mount Tambora, Indonesia
Photo: Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
April to October
Accessibility
not-accessible
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The volcano whose colossal 1815 eruption was the most powerful in recorded history, chilling the globe into a year without a summer. A vast summit caldera now crowns the Sumbawa peak.

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