Manuk

Manuk (also manoek ) is a volcanic island in the Moluccas. The uninhabited island in the Banda Sea is part of the Indonesian province of Maluku.

Manuk has an area of ​​about one square kilometer at a length of about 1.4 km and a maximum width of one kilometer. Neighboring islands are Serua ( about 90 km south-southwest ) and the Banda islands ( about 120 kilometers north-northwest ). Manuk is the easternmost island of the Banda arc. This island arc is parallel to the subduction zone where the Australian plate dives under the Eurasian plate.

The island is surrounded by cliffs and partly surrounded by a coral reef. To the west is a small sandy beach on the north coast and woods. Manuk is the culmination of a built- andesitic stratovolcano that rises 3000 meters above the sea floor. In the area of the opening to the southeast crater Manuk reaches a height of 282 meters above sea level. In the crater and on the western edge of fumaroles are active, the previously used by Chinese traders for recovery of sulfur.

From a historical time no scientifically confirmed reports of volcanic eruptions are known. According to a participant of the Challenger Expedition is to have ascended from the crater in 1874 smoke. The summit area is a Blocklavastrom who might be less than 100 years old. According to Australian newspaper reports from January and April 1933 was after a volcanic eruption, a cloud of smoke over the island. The observations were from passenger ships which plied between Australia and Hong Kong. Manuk was driven from the ships to show the passengers the large number of birds on the island. According to reports, some of the birds of the equally numerous snakes on the island malnourished.

In June 1930, the captain of a passenger ship had provided 35 people on Manuk with food. These came from the island of Ambon, were blown off course on their way to Serua, had sought refuge on Manuk and just under a month mainly feeds on bird eggs. According to the captain such incidents were not uncommon.