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Image GVP-01171

This is the Batur I summit crater of Batur volcano, a cone constructed within the 7.5-km-wide Batur caldera. A chain of cones and craters was constructed along a NE-SW-trending line across the summit. Historical eruptions have occurred from Batur I, Batur II, Batur III, and other flank cones. Photo by Sumarma Hamidi, 1973 (Volcanological Survey of Indonesia).

This is the Batur I summit crater of Batur volcano, a cone constructed within the 7.5-km-wide Batur caldera. A chain of cones and craters was constructed along a NE-SW-trending line across the summit. Historical eruptions have occurred from Batur I, Batur II, Batur III, and other flank cones.

Photo by Sumarma Hamidi, 1973 (Volcanological Survey of Indonesia).

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