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    Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba, Toba Batak: ᯖᯀᯬ ᯖᯬᯅ; romanized: Tao Toba) is a large natural lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, occupying the caldera...
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    site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is one of the largest known explosive eruptions in the Earth's history. The Toba catastrophe theory...
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    Regency. The Batak Toba people speak the Toba Batak language and are centered on Lake Toba and Samosir Island within the lake. Batak Toba people frequently...
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    500 km3. The largest lake, by both area and volume, is Lake Toba in Sumatra. It holds 240 km3 of freshwater, and is the largest lake body in Southeast Asia...
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    point, Lake Toba is the largest crater lake in the world. While many crater lakes are picturesque, they can also be deadly. Gas discharges from Lake Nyos...
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    Batak. There are approximately 1,610,000 Toba Batak speakers, living to the east, west and south of Lake Toba. Historically it was written using the Batak...
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  • February 22, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2020. "Aek Natonang Lake – A Sub-Lake of Pangururan". www.toba.indonesia-tourism.com. Retrieved August 12, 2020. Freedman...
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    Samosir (category Lake Toba)
    Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in the north of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Administratively, Samosir...
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    Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Toba, Angkola, and Mandailing, related ethnic groups with distinct languages and...
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    eruptions, for instance, Krakatoa for its global effects in 1883, the Lake Toba Caldera for its supervolcanic eruption estimated to have occurred 74,000...
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  • Caldera (section Toba)
    in the form of a resurgent dome such as is seen at the Valles Caldera, Lake Toba, the San Juan volcanic field, Cerro Galán, Yellowstone, and many other...
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    North Sumatra (category Asahan Toba basin)
    groups). The central highlands region around Lake Toba is predominantly inhabited by other Batak groups (Toba, Simalungun, and Karo). The Nias people are...
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    landlocked, the regency includes the eastern shore of the vast inland Lake Toba. The regency was originally created on 23 November 1998 from the northern...
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    kilometres (76 mi). The largest lake in the world that drains naturally in two directions is Wollaston Lake. Lake Toba on the island of Sumatra is in what...
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  • toba or Toba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Toba may refer to: Toba Sur language, spoken in South America Batak Toba, spoken in Indonesia Toba people...
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    eruption. Examples: Crater Lake, Oregon, United States Heaven Lake, China/North Korea Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia Lakes in maars fill small craters...
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  • salt lake. Of these lakes, 10 have a deepest point above sea level. These are Issyk-Kul, Crater Lake, Quesnel Lake, Sarez Lake, Lake Toba, Lake Tahoe...
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    Cuicocha Lake, Ecuador Teopan Island in Lake Coatepeque, El Salvador Islas Quemadas in Lake Ilopango, El Salvador Samosir Island in Lake Toba, Sumatra...
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    description in 2017 of a third species, P. tapanuliensis, from Sumatra south of Lake Toba, came with a surprising twist: it is more closely related to the Bornean...
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    Balige (category Asahan Toba basin)
    (capital) of Toba Regency. It is 240 kilometers away from Medan. Balige is also a tourist spot to see Lake Toba, the largest crater lake in the world...
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    Valles Caldera in New Mexico (both western United States); Lake Taupō in New Zealand; Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia; and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania...
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    Asahan River (category Lake Toba)
    North Sumatra, Indonesia, that begins in Porsea, Toba Regency near the southeast corner of Lake Toba. The river flows in a north-easterly direction, cutting...
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    orangutans about 3.4 million years ago, and became more isolated after the Lake Toba eruption that occurred about 75,000 years ago. They had continued sporadic...
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    (for example, Yellowstone Caldera) or at subduction zones (for example, Toba). Large-volume supervolcanic eruptions are also often associated with large...
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    Tenggara; Bromo-Tengger-Semeru, East Java; Thousand Islands, Jakarta; Lake Toba, North Sumatra; Wakatobi, Southeast Sulawesi; Tanjung Lesung, Banten;...
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    house (lesung). 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...
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    024 ft), Puncak Jaya is Indonesia's highest peak, and Lake Toba in Sumatra is the largest lake, with an area of 1,145 km2 (442 sq mi). Indonesia's largest...
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  • of Indonesia are often regarded as belonging to Oceania, Sumatra and Lake Toba are generally placed in Asia. Walter K. Dodds; Matt R. Whiles (23 September...
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    differentiation". With the Lake Toba bottleneck, many species showed massive effects of narrowing of the gene pool, and Toba may have reduced the human...
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  • Lake Sidihoni is a lake located within Samosir Island which itself is an island within Lake Toba, in North Sumatra, Indonesia and is therefore notable...
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