Mount Talang () () is an active stratovolcano in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Talang has two crater lakes on its flanks, the largest of which is wide and is called Lake Talang.

According to the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Mount Talang has had eight confirmed eruptions between 1833 and 1968. A minor eruption followed in April 2005, over 25,000 inhabitants of the local area being evacuated due to fears of further volcanic eruptions. Geologists say that the eruption in April 2005 is connected to the devastating December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Mount Talang

The pitcher plant Nepenthes talangensis is named after the mountain and is thought to be endemic to its upper slopes.

Mount Talang

See also

List of volcanoes in Indonesia

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

References

Stratovolcanoes of Indonesia

Subduction volcanoes

Active volcanoes of Indonesia

Volcanoes of Sumatra

Mountains of Sumatra

Volcanic crater lakes

Landforms of West Sumatra

Holocene stratovolcanoes

Mount Talang