This increasingly-popular Ribu is the highest peak on the island of Seram and the large range is part of the Manusela National Park. There is a northern and a southern route, and the southern route is becoming the more popular of the two because the trailhead is a little higher up and a return journey can be done in 5 days and 4 nights.
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Facts Elevation: 2,700 m (8,858 ft) Prominence: 2,700 m Ribu category: Tinggi Sedang Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Island: Buru Coordinates: -3.3006, 126.2199 Rating: Other names: Kaplamada, Kapalamadan, Kepala Madan World Ribus ID: 69018 Photos Bagging It! This Ribu is the highest point of Buru island. Almost certainly not climbed in recent decades. The name may even be incorrect
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Banda Api is a small but very active island volcano in the remote Banda islands. It has been observed and written about for centuries since it was a key location for the trading of spice when the British, Dutch and Portuguese sought the vast quantities of nutmeg on these islands – particularly Run / Rhun island. The last major eruption was in 1988 but there remains minor fumarole activity near the summit.
Facts Elevation: 282 m (925 ft) Prominence: 282 m Peak category: Spesial Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Coordinates: -5.5434, 130.3063 Rating: Photos Bagging It! The small steep-sided island of Manuk is the easternmost volcano in the arcuate Banda volcanic arc. The 282-m-high truncated andesitic cone rises 3000 m from the sea floor. No confirmed historical eruptions are known from
Facts Elevation: 781 m (2,562 ft) Prominence: 781 m Peak category: Spesial Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Island: Nila Coordinates: -6.7408, 129.5137 Rating: Eruptions: 1903, 1932, 1964, 1968 Photos Bagging It! The 5 x 6 km Nila Island in the Banda Sea is comprised of a low-rimmed caldera whose rim is breached at sea level on the south and
Facts Elevation: 655 m (2,149 ft) Prominence: 655 m Peak category: Spesial Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Island: Teun Coordinates: -6.9763, 129.1441 Rating: Eruptions: 1659-60, 1663, 1693, 1904 Bagging It! Teon, an elongated island in the southwestern Banda arc, is also known as Serawerna, the name of its active crater. Another smaller crater is located to the NNE of
Facts Elevation: 282 m (925 ft) Prominence: 282 m Peak category: Spesial Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Coordinates: -6.6352, 126.6607 Rating: Eruptions: 1512, 1699 Bagging It! Gunungapi Wetar volcano forms an isolated island in the Banda Sea north of Wetar Island. The small circular island reaches only 282 m above the sea surface but is the summit of a
Facts Elevation: 641 m (2,103 ft) Prominence: 641 m Peak category: Spesial Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Island: Serua Coordinates: -6.3123, 130.0170 Rating: Eruptions: 1683, 1687, 1693-94, 1844-46, 1858-59, 1919, 1921 Photos Bagging It! The small 2 x 4 km island of Serua is the emergent summit of a volcano rising 3600 m above the Banda Sea floor. A
Pulau Damar (pronounced locally as “Damer”) is part of the Maluku Barat Daya (“MBD”) archipelago, often referred to as the “forgotten islands” of Indonesia. Damar is a seriously beautiful island dominated by the active volcano Wurlali, whose multiple peaks, dotted with fumaroles and streaked with yellow sulphur, rise above a green blanket of seemingly impenetrable jungle.
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Facts Elevation: 1,412 m (4,633 ft) Prominence: 1,412 m Ribu category: Kurang Tinggi Province: Maluku (Moluccas) Island: Wetar Coordinates: -7.6842, 126.5133 Rating: World Ribus ID: 69090 Bagging It! Lalaitu is the highest point on the island of Wetar which is the largest of the remote Barat Daya islands. The Bakosurtanal map does not name this peak but
