Kawah Ijen is home to the largest lake of sulfur acid in the world
Mount Ijen popular call as Kawah Ijen, location beetween Bondowoso region and Banyuwangi region, east Java. Kawah ijen 2300 metres above sea-level, with volcano is one of several volcanoes located in the 15km diameter including Coffee Plantation area, The volcanic cone of Kawah Ijen dominates the landscape at the eastern end of Java, indonesia. The crater is filled by a spectacular turquoise blue lake The Lake areal is 45 hectare with Deep of Lake is about 200 m is home to the largest lake of sulfuric acid in the world, the active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 meters. Kawah Ijen has erupted six times since 1796, most recently in 1993. Most of the eruptions were phreatic. The eruptions have been small to moderate (VEI=1-2). In 1817, the crater lake collapsed, producing mudflows that destroyed three villages and 90 houses. The number of deaths is unknown,…
A Guide for Climbing Mount Semeru
Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park is one of conservation areas which has been already well known by many people, because it has great values of potential aspects both is viewed from cultural history, biodiversity and estetica. This is proved with increasing of people to visit the park with various interests like for recreation, camping climbing, education and research. Realizing that situation, the government had established Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park area as a nasional park which was established on November 12, 1992 with the decree of Minister of Foresty No.1049/Kpts-Il/1992 with covering an area of 50.267,3 ha. which administratively is located in 4 regencies of Probolinggo, Pasuruan, Malang and Lumajang, East Java Pnovince. Mount Semeru is located between the regencies of Malang and Lumajang with geographical position of 8 06′ South Latitude and 12 55′ East Longitude. The peak of Mount Semeru is 3,676 m above sea level, the highest…