Salak (volcano)

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Salak
Gunung Salak

Gunung Salak

height 2211  m
location Jawa Barat , Java Island
Coordinates 6 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 106 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 6 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 106 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E
Salak (volcano) (Java)
Salak (volcano)
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 1938

The Salak is a 2211 meter high stratovolcano in the province of Jawa Barat on the Indonesian island of Java . It formed at the northeast end of a number of older, eroded volcanoes. There are two craters in the summit area , several secondary craters are on the south-eastern slope and on the northern foot. In historical times phreatic explosions occurred several times in an area of solfataras on the western slope of the Salak. The last eruption was in 1938. The city of Bogor, part of the Jakarta metropolitan region, is located around 15 kilometers north-northeast of the Salak. The mountain is part of the Gunung Halimun National Park .

origin of the name

Salak fruit of the salak palm.
Historical lithograph of the Salak.

According to popular belief, the name "salak" comes from the fruit of the same name from the salak palm , a tropical fruit with scaly skin.

According to the Sundanese tradition, the name was derived from the Sanskrit word "salaka", which means 'silver'. The term “Gunung” is generally used in the Indonesian language as an additional name for mountains. As a result, the name "Gunung Salak" translates as "Silver Mountain".

Aircraft accidents

The Gunung Salak was already referred to as the “aircraft cemetery” in the regional newspapers. The reasons given for the many crashes in this region are strong turbulence and rapidly changing weather conditions in the mountainous terrain. Between 2002 and 2012 there were eight plane crashes in the Gunung Salak region. Shortly before the last crash on May 9, 2012, three people died in a crash as part of a training flight, 18 people died in a crash of a military aircraft of the Indonesian Air Force in 2008, five people died in a plane crash in June 2004, two people were killed in killed in a crash in April 2004, seven people died in an airplane accident in October 2003 and one person was killed in a crash in October 2002.

Most recently, 45 people died on May 9, 2012 in a plane crash on a Russian test flight . The widespread debris of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft was found on the slope of the volcano.

Web links

Commons : Salak (Vulkan)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Salak. In: Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution, accessed May 13, 2012 .
  2. a b c Mt.Salak: An airplane graveyard. (No longer available online.) In: The Jakarta Post. May 10, 2012, archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; accessed on May 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thejakartapost.com
  3. В районе индонезийской горы Салак за последние 10 лет произошло уже 7 авиакатастроф. In: ИТАР-ТАСС. May 10, 2012, Retrieved May 11, 2012 (Russian).
  4. Rescue workers find wreckage of Russian superjet. Indonesia. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH, May 10, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2012 .
  5. a b Crash pilot apparently wanted to show the military base. Superjet crash in Indonesia. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. SPIEGEL ONLINE GmbH, May 12, 2012, accessed on May 13, 2012 .