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Billy Mitchell

Volcano in Papua New Guinea

Elevation: 1,544 m
Range: Emperor Range
Country: Papua New Guinea
Located in: Autonomous Region of Bougainville

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Billy Mitchell is a dormant pyroclastic shield volcano in central Bougainville, just north-east of the Bagana Volcano in Papua New Guinea. It is a small pyroclastic shield truncated by a 2 km wide caldera filled by a crater lake. It is named after Billy Mitchell, a 20th-century United States Army general who is sometimes regarded as the father of the United States Air Force.

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Topographic isolation: 5 km relative to: Bagana
Date: 1580 characteristic of: volcanic eruption
Diameter: 2.4 km applies to part: volcanic crater
Native label: Billy Mitchell

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-6.0920, 155.2250OpenStreetMap ↗

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