# Mount Tambora

- **Country:** Indonesia
- **Coordinates:** -8.250000, 118.000000
- **Age:** Late Pleistocene-recent
- **Type:** Trachybasaltic-trachyandesitic stratovolcano
- **Listing:** UltrasRibu
- **Location:** Bima and Dompu Regencies, Sanggar peninsula, Sumbawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
- **Map Size:** 300
- **Other Name:** Tomboro
- **Elevation M:** 2722
- **Prominence M:** 2722
- **Volcanic Arc:** Sunda Arc
- **Easiest Route:** Southeast: Doro MbohaNorthwest: Pancasila
- **Last Eruption:** 1967

Mount Tambora, or Tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Located on Sumbawa in the Lesser Sunda Islands, volcanism is the result of subduction zones. The 1815 eruption was the largest in recorded history, erupting up to 150 cubic kilometers of volcanic material, making it a VEI-7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. This caused the summer of 1816 to become known as the "Year Without a Summer" due to global cooling from the eruption.

![Photo of Mount Tambora](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Mount_Tambora_Volcano%2C_Sumbawa_Island%2C_Indonesia.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tambora (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)