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Lake Toba
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The largest volcanic lake in the world, occupying the caldera of a supervolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that erupted catastrophically around 74,000 years ago. The island of Samosir rises from within the lake itself, formed by later resurgent volcanic activity.
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