Lake Toba
Lake Toba[1] is a lake in the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is 100 kilometres (62 miles) long and 30 kilometres (19 miles) wide, and 505 metres (1,657 feet) at its deepest point.
It is in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with an elevation of about 900 metres (2,953 ft). The lake stretches from 2°53′N 98°31′E / 2.88°N 98.52°E to 2°21′N 99°06′E / 2.35°N 99.1°E. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.[2] In the middle of the lake there is an Island called Samosir, in Bahasa Indonesia "Pulau Samosir."
Lake Toba Media
Batu Gantung (Hanging stone) in Lake Toba
Lake Toba - Danau Toba
Landsat photo of Sumatra surrounding Lake Toba
Batak canoes near Haranggaol on Lake Toba (circa 1920)
Lake Toba seen from the plane
Aerial view of the southern shore with Sibandang Island visible in the background
View of the lake with an example of Batak architecture in the foreground
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Traditional Batak house at Ambarita, Lake Toba
- Air terjun sipiso-piso.jpg
Related pages
References
- ↑ Indonesian: [Danau Toba] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)
- ↑ Worldlakes.org
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