Ritter Island is a small crescent-shaped volcanic island 100 kilometres northeast of New Guinea situated between Umboi Island and Sakar Island.There are several recorded eruptions of this basaltic-andesitic stratovolcano prior to a spectacular lateral collapse which took place in 1888. Before that event it was a circular conical island about 780 metres high.
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