Mount Nila

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Mount Nila
Elevation 781 metres (2,562 feet)[1]
Location Banda Sea, Indonesia
Coordinates 6.73° S 129.50° E
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1968

Nila volcano forms completely an isolated 5 × 6 km wide of island with the same name in Banda Sea, Indonesia. The volcano comprises a low caldera with its rims breach into the sea surface on the south and the east side. The dominantly andesitic volcano contains a young forested cone at the elevation of 781 m height.[1]

Mount NIla is a stratovolcano, and caused the abandonment of a Rumadai village when it erupted in 1968.

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  1. ^ a b Nila. Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved on 2006-12-29.