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Vulcan (volcano)

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Vulcan did not exist during the German colonial times, although the agronomist for the New Guinea Company, Richard Parkinson, noticed that a small island in the harbour in 1880 had grown noticeably larger by 1900. During the 1920s the island offered enough new land for Australian colonials to open a
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sporting club there, with tennis courts. By 1937 Vulcan was its current size and erupted that year, filling the harbour with a thick layer of pumice. An Australian Navy sailor walked out from the wharf some hundred meters before he broke through the crust and drowned.
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and lies on its western rim. Its most recent eruption was in 1994, when it and another vent,
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This article is about the volcano in Papua New Guinea. For the volcano in
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to be temporarily abandoned and the local administrative centres of
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Elevation
Coordinates
4°16′16″S 152°10′12″E / 4.271°S 152.17°E / -4.271; 152.17
East New Britain
Papua New Guinea
Mountain type
Pumice cone
Rabaul caldera
Last eruption
pumice cone
Papua New Guinea
Rabaul caldera
Tavurvur
Rabaul
East New Britain Province

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