Siau is an island in

North Sulawesi North Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the Minahasa Peninsula of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia. It borders the Philippine province of Davao Occidental and Soccsks ...

, Indonesia, located in the

Sangir Archipelago The Sangihe Islands (also spelled "Sangir", "Sanghir" or "Sangi") – id, Kepulauan Sangihe – are a group of islands which constitute two regencies within the province of North Sulawesi, in northern Indonesia, the Sangihe Islands Regen ...

approximately off the northern tip of

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

in the

Celebes Sea The Celebes Sea, (; ms, Laut Sulawesi, id, Laut Sulawesi, fil, Dagat Selebes) or Sulawesi Sea, of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by ...

. Covering a land area of 160 km², it is the main island of the

Sitaro Islands Regency Sitaro Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Sitaro, although its formal name is ''Kabupaten Kepulauan Siau Tagulandang Biaro'') is a regency located off the northern extremity of Sulawesi Island in the southern Sangihe Islands, North Sulawesi ...

Province.

COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Bewoners van het eiland Siaoe poseren voor een decor in een fotostudio TMnr 10005699

The northern part of the island forms the

volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are ...

known as Karangetang (Api Siau), which is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes. The population of Siau island was 40,758 at the 2010 Census and 45,804 at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The island has been noted as the home of the

Siau Island tarsier The Siau Island tarsier (''Tarsius tumpara'') is a species of tarsier from the tiny volcanic island of Siau Island, Siau in Indonesia. The ''T. tumpara'' species is one of 14 species and 7 subspecies in the tarsier family called "Tarsiidae". They ...

Communities

Communities on the island include the town of Ulu Siau and the villages of Baru, Batuwawang, Bebali (Bubali), Beong, Hiu, Kahawungan, Kanawong, Korakora, Lai, Lehi, Ondang, Ondong, Paniki, Pehe, Peliang, Salili, Tempuna and Toto. The island is administratively divided into 6 districts of the

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Landforms of the Celebes Sea Landforms of North Sulawesi Sangihe Islands {{NSulawesi-geo-stub

Communities

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