Billy Mitchell (volcano)

Billy Mitchell is a pyroclastic shield in the central part of the island of Bougainville, just north-east of the Bagana Volcano in Papua New Guinea.

It is a small pyroclastic shield truncated by a 2 km wide caldera filled by a crater lake.

The 1580 AD ± 20 years eruption produced pyroclastic flows and probably formed its caldera.

[1] Billy Mitchell caldera lake is about 1,013 m above sea level, has total surface area 3 km2 (1.2 sq mi), and the maximum depth approximately 88.3 m. The only fish species in the lake is the eel Anguilla megastoma.

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