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Ulawun

You can see 246 km from here, looking north.

79Viewyas Score

SummitSunsetSea view360°Long view

Calculating the panorama…

Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.

The view

Up to 246 km away.

Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.

79out of 100

Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).

  • 246 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 35%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
  • 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,331 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 6 peaks you can name from here

From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.

Tavurvur688 m · 133 km · north-eastBamus2,248 m · 19 km · south-westBola1,116 m · 144 km · westDakataua400 m · 136 km · west

From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.

The sun

The best sunsets are from May to June and from September to October.

When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.

  1. Janwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  2. Febwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset10%
  3. Marwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  4. Aprwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset16%
  5. Maywest-2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  6. Junnorth-west-4 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  7. Julwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  8. Augwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  9. Sepwest-4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  11. Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  12. Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset14%
  • Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
  • Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
  • %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).

The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.

The place

Ulawun.

Stratovolcano situated on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Ulawun is a volcano in Papua New Guinea, 2,331 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 246 km away, looking north.

The sea fills 35% of the horizon.

6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Tavurvur (688 m), 133 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from May to June and from September to October.

Ulawun seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and stay

  • Hoskins Airport (HKN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 112 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for UlawunGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near UlawunBooking.comSee prices Car hire in Papua New GuineaDiscover CarsSee prices 

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From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Ulawun seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • other viewpoints within 5 km
    • named peaks within 5 km
    • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
    • marked trails within 3 km
    • shelters and huts within 5 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • visitor centres within 5 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    In our other atlases

    What you see from Ulawun, and what is near.

    Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

    Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
    Ulawun · this placeUlawun2,334 m · volcano · 0.3 kmMount Likuruanga · 12 kmBamus2,248 m · 19 kmGiwu Peak366 m · 19 kmMount Tambi · 24 kmMount Lolobau883 m · volcano · 25 km
    Islandyasthe island
    New Britain36,520 km²
    Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
    UlawunBortle 1 · this place

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

    Other viewpoints nearby.

    Ulawun

    Papua New Guinea

    • 79Viewyas Score
    • 246 kmFarthest ridge
    • 6Peaks in view
    • 2,331 mAltitude

    Tavurvur

    Papua New Guinea · 133 km

    • 64Viewyas Score
    • 101 kmFarthest ridge
    • 4Peaks in view
    • 624 mAltitude

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q74158) · CC0
    SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
    Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
    Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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