 MOUNT
BAGANA
Mount Bagana is an active volcano in the centre of Bougainville
Island. While I was there you could easily see the smoke rising
from the mountain. The very scientific information below was
taken from this site:
http://www.volcano.si.edu
 Bagana volcano, 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.
| Country: |
Bougainville |
| Subregion Name: |
Bougainville Island |
| Volcano Number: |
0505-02= |
| Volcano Type: |
Lava cone |
| Volcano Status: |
Historical |
| Last Known Eruption: |
2007 (continuing)
24
known eruptions since 1842 |
| Summit Elevation: |
1750 m |
5,741 feet |
| Latitude: |
6.140°S |
6°8'24"S |
| Longitude: |
155.195°E |
155°11'42"E |
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