Iliboleng had a large eruption that started in April of1973 and
continued on until April of the next year. During this eruption
tephra was ejected from the
central crater. The tephra destroyed the
vegetation along its slopes. It has erupted at least 20 times since
1885 with its latest eruption occurring in 1993.
Space Shuttle photo STS008-050-1840 looking northwest across the island of
Adonara and Iliboleng volcano. Photo taken in September 1983. Note the
eruption plume. Iliboleng erupted from May 1983 to April 1984.
McClelland, Lindsay et. al., "Global Volcanism 1975-1985," Smithsonian
Institution Scientific Event Alert Network, Prentice Hll, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 655 pp., 1989.
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