Volume 1

Netherlands East Indies / by S.H. Beaver [and others].

  • Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
Date:
1944
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Netherlands East Indies / by S.H. Beaver [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    crater contains a lake, and an inrush of sea-water over the broken rim into this lake is always liable to cause the young volcano to spew up its contents in protest. An observation post is maintained on Lang-eiland. e Solfataras & Fumaroles x Suffocating Gases B Observation Post 500 Metres Fig. 15. The volcano Tangkoebanprahoe Land over 1,800 m. stippled; over 2,000 m. cross-hatched; contour interval 50 m. Only the western half of an ancient crater rim remains, with two crater-like depressions, and a number of active centres of gas, steam and hot water eruptions. -K.B. is Kawah Baroe, K.R. is Kawah Ratoe. See also Plate 3. Source: Bulletin Netherlands Indies Volcanological Survey, No. 75 (Bandoeng, 1936). Tangkoebanprahoe (Fig. 15). Rising from the northern side of the plain of Bandoeng in western Java, to a height of 2,076 m. (6,800 ft.), this volcano has an ancient crater rim, lower on the east than on the west, enclosing two smaller craters, known as Kawah Oepas and Kawah Ratoe (Kawah is a Malay word meaning crater). Within and outside these craters and on the eastern slopes of the volcano there are several scores of eruption points—fumaroles, solfataras, mud wells and hot springs—including a number of places where suffocating gases accumulate. The observation post is equipped with a sub- terranean refuge room which has two outlet tunnels, each with a gas-proof door. The flanks of the volcano are covered with dense jungle up to the crater rim, which is approachable by motor road from Bandoeng (Plate 3). Papandajan (Fig. 16). Papandajan is the most easily accessible of all the Javanese volcanoes, and the most visited by tourists. It can be reached from Bandoeng by a motor road which was opened in 1935. There is a large horse-shoe shaped crater rim, open towards the north, enclosing several smaller crater remnants, the youngest of
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