Lake Toba
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Lake Toba is a large natural lake in North Sumatra and Indonesia. The lake is the massive caldera of the Toba supervolcano. The lake is located in the middle of the northern part of the island of Suma
A view of Lake Toba and Samosir Island
Batu Gantung (Hanging stone) in Lake Toba
Batak canoes near Haranggaol on Lake Toba (circa 1920)
Ferry boats on Lake Toba
Youngest Toba eruption
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The Toba eruption was a large eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the last in a series of a
Lake Toba
…is one of twenty geoparks in Indonesia, and was recognised in July 2020 as one of the UNESCO Global Geoparks. Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, temporarily changing the earth's climate. Recent advances in dating methods suggest a more…
Lake Toba is the resulting crater lake