Tambora

[tahm-baw-rah, -boh-, -buh-]

noun

1. an active volcano in Indonesia, on N Sumbawa: eruption 1815. 9,042 feet (2,756 meters).

Tambora

/ ˈtæmbəˌrɑː /

noun

1. a volcano in Indonesia, on N Sumbawa: violent eruption of 1815 reduced its height from about 4000 m (13 000 ft) to 2850 m (9400 ft)

Example Sentences

Tambora volcano eruption in Indonesia, which clouded sunlight around the world for more than a year.

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The unusually cold year of 1816, which went down in history as the Year Without a Summer, stemmed from an eruption of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia in April of 1815, possibly exacerbated by a hitherto unknown volcanic eruption six years before.

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Moussallam cited global cooling periods that occurred after the eruption of Tambora in 1815 and Mt.

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Tambora erupted in present-day Indonesia.

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In 1815, Mount Tambora in what’s now Indonesia unleashed the largest known volcanic eruption in history.

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