Mount Lokon

Mount Lokon (Indonesian: Lo'kon), also known as Gunung Lokon, together with Mount Empung, is a twin volcano (2.2 km or 1.4 mi apart) in the Tomohon, Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, roughly 10 km (6 mi) south of Manado.

Lokon formed during a period of andesitic volcanism on ring fractures resulting from the Tondano caldera's early to mid-Pleistocene collapse.

Recently erupted material remains andesitic in composition [2] and consists of ash plumes and, less commonly, pyroclastic flows and lava domes.

Local residents were evacuated from a two and a half mile exclusion zone around the volcano.

The eruption of Mount Lokon in 1991 killed a Swiss hiker and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.

Mount Lokon view from the Pier of Manado bay, captured in 1920
Mount Lokon erupting in 2011
Mount Lokon view from Tomohon
Mount Lokon unleashes an ash plume, seen from the foothills village near Tompaluan
Black crested macaques living in the Lokon nature reserve