Mount Bagana

Mount Bagana, 1730m, an active volcano on Bougainville spewing sulphurous gases. This picture was taken on a six-week trip by private sailboat through the seldom-visited islands north of New Guinea, in an area of the South Pacific known as the Solomon Sea. Most of the islets here have no airport or regularly scheduled boat services, and their way of life is traditional by economic necessity. The region is also one of the most volcanically active in the world.

Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea