Wednesday, October 26, 2011

volcanoes in malaysia..=_=''

so i see my friend doing his paper work just now and the title of the paper work is volcano. it make me think do volcano exist in malaysia, then i started search for information then i cam across this particular hill in tawau. call the bombalai hill. bombalai hill is a part of a volcanic hill on the semporna peninsula in northeastern borneo. it lies in tawau division, sabah, malaysia across cowie harbour from the indonesia province of east kalimantan. and is the only volcano in the country  The low volcanic cone is located north of Sebatik Island and has a roughly 300-m-wide crater breached to the south. Two young lava flows extend almost to the coastal plain. The flows were considered younger than a lava flow radiocarbon dated at about 27,000 years before present, and the extrusion of basaltic lavas possibly continued into Holocene time. This marks the only known area of possible Holocene volcanism on Borneo. It is also known to be Malaysia's highest volcanic point.
bombalai hill

bombalai hill taken from the mengaris besar

this particular place is not a bad place to visit also..:)

1 comment:

  1. LOL,, I dont know, is this a great fortune to possess only one volcano or not,, But we have thousand of these! Oh Goddddd!!!! One of the greatest eruption in human history; Tambora Mount in Sumbawa, lies in my place,, what an amazing thing!

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