Sakar (island)

Sakar
	Sakar (north) Umboi (west) and New Britain (east) on Dampier Strasse
Waters	Bismarcksee
Archipelago	Siassi Islands
Geographical location	5 ° 24 '32 " S , 148 ° 4' 53" O Coordinates: 5 ° 24 '32 " S , 148 ° 4' 53" O
length	8.8 km
width	7.3 km
surface	34 km²
Highest elevation	Mount Sakar ; 992 m
main place	Alairo

Sakar , formerly Tupinians , is a volcanic island in the Tewai-Siassi district of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea . It is located 14 km off the north coast of Umboi and 26.5 km northwest of the island of New Britain at the northern end of the Dampier Strait and belongs to the Siassi Islands . The island rises to a height of 992 m above sea level. Your closest neighbor is the Knights Island, 7.5 km to the south .

On the island of Sakar there is a stratovolcano with a crater lake on the summit. Heavily forested valleys cut deep into the flanks of the volcanic island, which is surrounded by coral reefs , especially on the north and east coast . There are warm springs along the southwest coast.

When the volcano on Ritter Island erupted on March 13, 1888, the vegetation on Sakar was destroyed by a tsunami up to a height of 15 m above sea level .

Web links

Sakar on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Sakar in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)

Individual evidence

↑ The islands of Rook and Woodlark in the Great Ocean (map from 1962, Justus Perthes)
↑ Steven N. Ward, Simon Day: Ritter Island Volcano — lateral collapse and the tsunami of 1888. (PDF; 5.4 MB) In: Geophysical Journal International. Vol. 54, 2003, pp. 891-902.

[1] The islands of Rook and Woodlark in the Great Ocean (map from 1962, Justus Perthes)

[wardday-2] Steven N. Ward, Simon Day: Ritter Island Volcano — lateral collapse and the tsunami of 1888. (PDF; 5.4 MB) In: Geophysical Journal International. Vol. 54, 2003, pp. 891-902.