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Location of Lake Toba shown in red on map. The Toba eruption (the Toba event) occurred at what is now Lake Toba about 73,700±300 years ago. [15] It was the last in a series of at least four caldera-forming eruptions at this location, with the earlier known caldera having formed around 1.2 million years ago. [16]
The deepest area is oceanic rather than continental crust. However, it is generally regarded by geographers as a large endorheic salt lake. Of these registered lakes; 10 have a deepest point above the sea level. These are: Issyk-Kul, Crater Lake, Quesnel, Sarez, Toba, Tahoe, Kivu, Nahuel Huapi, Van and Poso.
The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Landsat image of Lake Toba, Indonesia, the largest volcanic crater lake in the world. A well-known crater lake, which bears the same name as the geological feature, is Crater Lake in Oregon. It is located in the caldera of Mount Mazama. It is the deepest lake in the United States with a depth of 594 m (1,949 ft).
Caribbean Sea: sea level 73 m 240 ft Antarctica: Vinson Massif: 4892 m 16,050 ft Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills [1] [citation needed] −50 m −164 ft: 4942 m 16,214 ft Antigua and Barbuda: Boggy Peak on Antigua: 402 m 1,319 ft Caribbean Sea: sea level 402 m 1,319 ft Argentina: Aconcagua [a] [b] 6961 m 22,838 ft Laguna del Carbón [c] −105 m − ...
After the Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea is the second-most-polluted sea. Pollution in the form of up to 300,000 tonnes of solid garbage dumped into the Caribbean Sea each year is progressively endangering marine ecosystems, wiping out species, and harming the livelihoods of local people, who rely primarily on tourism and fishing.
Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola — lowest lake on an island and lowest surface point on an ocean island on Earth at −46 m (−151 [ 2 ] Isthmus of Rivas , Rivas , Nicaragua 12°1′N 86°27′W / 12.017°N 86.450°W / 12.017; -86.450 ( Isthmus of Rivas ) — lowest pass between Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean ...
The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean plate borders the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate and the Cocos plate.