40+ Mount Tambora Eruption Pics. Mount tambora is an active volcano on the island of sumbawa in indonesia. Its 1815 explosion was possibly the most destructive ever recorded.
The mount tambora eruption was a volcanic eruption that had a vei of 7.
It lay atop the tropic. The eruptions' column was so high it reached the stratosphere at an altitude of more than 43 kilometres. It brought about the year without a summer. It gave us science fiction.