Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-12264

The roughly 4.5-km-wide Baluan Island of Papua New Guinea is a Pleistocene volcano with several flank vents and a 750-m-wide summit crater visible in this 4 December 2019 Sentinel-2 satellite image (N is at the top). Satellite image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data, 2019.

The roughly 4.5-km-wide Baluan Island of Papua New Guinea is a Pleistocene volcano with several flank vents and a 750-m-wide summit crater visible in this 4 December 2019 Sentinel-2 satellite image (N is at the top).

Satellite image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data, 2019.

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