Kadovar

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Space Shuttle photo STS027-0032-0071 looking southwest along the coast of Papua New Guinea and across the offshore volcanic islands. Photo taken December 2, 1988.

Kadovar is also a Holocene stratovolcano with a suspected (but not confirmed) eruption in 1700.

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Volcanoes of the western arc in the south Bismarck Sea. The arc is made of submarine volcanoes and volcanic islands. Simplified from Johnson (1976).

Sources of Information:

Ball, E.E., and Johnson, R.W., 1976, Volcanic history of Long Island, Papua New Guinea, in Johnson, R.W., ed., 1976, Volcanism in Australia: Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 133-147.

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.