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Mount Gamalama
This 1721m volcano Pulau Ternate. Gamalama erupted in 1840, destroying almost every house on the island. Although it has blown its fiery nose as recently as 1980, 1983 and 1994 it is not considered imminently dangerous. A volcanology unit keeps careful watch from Marikuruba village. There are pleasant, short, clove-grove hikes from Air Tege Tege village (near the transmitter tower).

Gamalama (also called Peak of Ternate) is a stratovolcano with multiple craters and crater lakes. Gamalama forms an island about 11 km in diameter. Small to moderate explosive eruptions are frequent with 70 known eruptions since 1538. Several eruptions have produced lava flows or mudflows. Six eruptions have caused fatalities. Glowing ash and rock killed 30-40 slaves during the 1771-1772 eruption. In 1773, several people drowned as overloaded boats fled from an eruption. During a maar-forming eruption in 1775, about 1,300 people were killed by pyroclastic flows or surges. In 1838, four sulfur collectors died in the crater. In 1871, a block fell on and killed a man. Five people were killed and five injured at Gamalama in 1962. The most recent eruption was in 1993.