There is an island that often becomes a photo object for visitors at southwest of Manado Bay. The island is a perfect cone-shape. Clouds are often visible on top of this mountain. Blue and bright sky, volcano in the middle of blue sea , the clouds on top are beautiful moments one should be captured. On the clear dusk time, the sky looks golden orange contrasting with a dark silhouette of the island.
In the past , the island was called Manado by people from the mainland. Manado in Minahasa language means Far Land. Well , because even today together takes about 1.5-2 hours by public boat of 120 PK . Maybe even longer than that.
People who have seen or even visited believe this island is a volcano. It's perfectly cone-shape, the dark rocks as well as the sand and the ground makes everybody assume this island a volcano. Unfortunately, the people who live in this island doesn't know exactly whether or not it is a volcano. Obviously, they just don't care. As long as they can live harmonically. Some people, though, think that this island isn't a volcano. Why? There has never existed any records of eruption from the island. To top it off, they couldn't find any crater from the volcano either on the peak, sides or anywhere else.
Plausible explanation comes from vulcanologist. They confirmed the second notion. It is not a volcano, but surely it was part of a volcano long time ago. A super volcano had existed in northern part of the peninsula before the Miocene age. This super volcano was believed to have super gigantic eruption at the end of Miocene or early Pliocene age. Some part of this Tondano Volcano was thrown into the sea and created islands. This theory was supported by the facts that the island never had a crater nor eruption or volcanic quake records. They even categorized it as inactive volcano.
In the past , the island was called Manado by people from the mainland. Manado in Minahasa language means Far Land. Well , because even today together takes about 1.5-2 hours by public boat of 120 PK . Maybe even longer than that.
Plausible explanation comes from vulcanologist. They confirmed the second notion. It is not a volcano, but surely it was part of a volcano long time ago. A super volcano had existed in northern part of the peninsula before the Miocene age. This super volcano was believed to have super gigantic eruption at the end of Miocene or early Pliocene age. Some part of this Tondano Volcano was thrown into the sea and created islands. This theory was supported by the facts that the island never had a crater nor eruption or volcanic quake records. They even categorized it as inactive volcano.
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