Mount Awu
Mount Awu is the largest stratovolcano in the Sangihe Islands chain, located on Sangir Island in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Powerful eruptions have occurred in 1711, 1812, 1856, 1822, 1892, and 1966 with devastating pyroclastic flows and lahars that resulted in 11,048 fatalities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,320 metres
- Description: mountain in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Goenoeng Awoe”, “Gunung Awu”, “Gunung Awu Crater”, and “Mount Awu Crater”
Mount Awu
- Categories: stratovolcano, mountain, and landform
- Location: Northern Sulawesi, Sulawesi, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
3.68131° or 3° 40′ 53″ northLongitude
125.45348° or 125° 27′ 13″ eastElevation
1,320 metres (4,331 feet)Open location code
6QM7MFJ3+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 548647873OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Awu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Ukrainian—“Mount Awu” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Gunong Awu”
- Balinese: “Gunung Awu”
- Banjar: “Gunung Awu”
- Batak Toba: “Gunung Awu”
- Betawi: “Gunung Awu”
- Cebuano: “Gunung Awu”
- Chinese: “阿武火山”
- Czech: “Awu”
- Dutch: “Awu”
- Dutch: “Gunung Awu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت او”
- French: “Awu”
- French: “Gunung Awu”
- German: “Awu (Vulkan)”
- German: “Awu”
- German: “Mount Awu”
- Hebrew: “אוו”
- Indonesian: “Bulude Awu”
- Indonesian: “Gunung awu”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Awu”
- Japanese: “アウ山”
- Javanese: “Gunung Awu”
- Korean: “아우 산”
- Korean: “아우산”
- Ladin: “Mont Awu”
- Madurese: “Gunung Awu”
- Malay: “Gunung Awu”
- Minangkabau: “Gunuang Awu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Awu”
- Norwegian: “Mount Awu”
- Persian: “کوه اوو”
- Polish: “Awu”
- Portuguese: “Aboe”
- Portuguese: “Awu”
- Portuguese: “Monte Awu”
- Russian: “Аву (вулкан)”
- Russian: “Аву”
- Serbian: “Аву”
- Slovak: “Awu”
- Spanish: “Monte Awu”
- Sundanese: “Gunung Awu”
- Swedish: “Gunung Awu”
- Turkish: “Awu Yanardağı”
- Ukrainian: “Аву”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Awu”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.