No latest activity reported for Kadovar.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Cooke R J S, Johnson R W, 1978. Volcanoes and volcanology in Papua New Guinea. {Geol Surv Papua New Guinea Rpt}, 78/2: 1-46

Johnson R W, 1987. Large-scale volcanic cone collapse: the 1888 slope failure of Ritter volcano, and other examples from Papua New Guinea. {Bull Volc}, 49: 669-679

Johnson R W, 1990. . (pers. comm.)

Johnson R W, Taylor G A M, Davies R A, 1972. Geology and petrology of Quaternary volcanic islands off the north coast of New Guinea. {Aust Bur Min Resour Geol Geophys Rec}, 1972/21: 1-127

Lowenstein P L, 1982. Problems of volcanic hazards in Papua New Guinea. {Geol Surv Papua New Guinea Rpt}, 82/7: 1-62

Silver E, Day S, Ward S, Hoffmann G, Llanes P, Driscoll N, Appelgate B, Saunders S, 2009. Volcano collapse and tsunami generation in the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, Papua New Guinea. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 186: 210-222

Taylor G A, 1955. Report on Bam Island volcano and an inspection of Kadovar and Blup Blup. {Aust Bur Min Resour Geol Geophys Rec}, 1955/73: 1-9

Wallace D A, Cooke R J S, Dent V F, Norris D J, Johnson R W, 1981. Kadovar volcano and investigations of an outbreak of thermal activity in 1976. {Geol Surv Papua New Guinea Mem}, 10: 1-12

The 2-km-wide island of Kadovar is the emergent summit of a Bismarck Sea stratovolcano of Holocene age. Kadovar is part of the Schouten Islands, and lies off the coast of New Guinea, about 25 km north of the mouth of the Sepik River. The village of Gewai is perched on the crater rim. A 365-m-high lava dome forming the high point of the andesitic volcano fills an arcuate landslide scarp that is open to the south, and submarine debris-avalanche deposits occur in that direction. Thick lava flows with columnar jointing forms low cliffs along the coast. The youthful island lacks fringing or offshore reefs. No certain historical eruptions are known; the latest activity was a period of heightened thermal phenomena in 1976.