31+ A Year Without Summer Mount Tambora Images. The year without a summer had many impacts in europe and north america. With mount tambora's eruption releasing millions of tons of sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, the consequences were felt all over the world.
It is known as the year without a summer.
The year without a summer was 1816. Effects of tambora volcanic eruption on iberian peninsula studied for first time. April 10, 1815 mount tambora on the island of sumbawa in the indonesian archipelago erupted, explosively, ejecting some 38 cubic miles of material 27 miles into the stratosphere, and blacking out the sun for two days at a in the aftermath, the summer of 1816 became the year without a summer. It lies approximately 210 miles north of the java trench and is flanked to the north and south by oceanic crust.