PHOTO OF THE DAY June 29, 2005  

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Where Sumatra island, Indonesia
When 1980
Photographer David Alan Harvey

About 74,000 years ago, a volcano erupted and collapsed in on itself on Sumatra. The resulting crater later filled with water and became known as Lake Toba (pictured).

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Sumatran Journey," March 1981, National Geographic magazine)


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