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Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ... The Origin of Lake Toba is a folk story about the lake ...
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.
A Batak Toba man from Samosir with a hoe over his shoulders, pre-1939. The Toba Batak people (Batak Toba: ᯅᯖᯂ᯲ ᯖᯬᯅ) are the largest ethnic group of the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The general term ‘Batak’ is sometimes used to refer to the Batak Toba people, for one thing because the Toba people are the largest ...
The lake and island were formed after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano some 75,000 years ago. [2] At 630 square kilometres (243 sq mi), Samosir is the largest island within an island and the fourth largest lake island in the world. [3] It also contains two smaller lakes, Lake Sidihoni and Lake Aek Natonang .
Batak tugu on the island of Samosir, Lake Toba, December 1984. The burial tradition includes a reburial ceremony in which the bones of one's ancestors are reinterred several years after death. This secondary burial is known among the Toba Batak as mangongkal holi, among the Karo as nurun-nurun.
Lake Toba is the site of early catastrophic eruptions and a current lake and crater in Sumatra in Indonesia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lake Toba . Pages in category "Lake Toba"
Toba Batak houses near Lake Toba. Batak Toba culture centres on Lake Toba and the sacred island of Samosir that lies within it. Jabu is the Toba language word for rumah adat. The houses are made up of three sections. A substructure of large wooden pillars resting on flat stones (or concrete nowadays) protects the structure from rising dampness.
The Uluan Peninsula extends into Lake Toba on the northeastern side toward Medan, in Simalungun Regency and Toba Samosir Regency of North Sumatra province. It has experienced a large amount of uplift because of a series of massive volcanic eruptions that began 1.2 million years ago.