| 1 | That was Mount Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. | |
| 2 | Amazing as it now sounds, Tambora was largely overlooked for some 160 years. | |
| 3 | When Mount Tambora, in Indonesia, erupted, the Earth' s temperature dropped enough to cause snow in Albany, New York... on June 6th. | |
| 4 | That effect is most noticeable when a volcano erupts explosively, as Mount Pinatubo did in 1991, or Tambora did in 1815. | |
| 5 | The 1815 eruption of Indonesia's Tambora - one of the most violent ever recorded on Earth - led to a disastrously cold summer across much of the globe in 1816. |
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