page_title: Loloru
section_title: Lake Loloru
hierarchical_section_title: Loloru / Lake Loloru
caption_attribution_description: English: Buin and Siwai boys visiting Lake Loloru and feeling discomfort: while souls of the deceased are elsewhere by Christian doctrine, by traditional belief they are there.
context_page_description: Loloru is a pyroclastic shield volcano located in the southern region of Bougainville Island, within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of northeastern Papua New Guinea.
  The volcano's summit consists of two nested calderas, with an andesitic lava dome.
context_section_description: Lake Loloru, a crescent-shaped volcanic crater lake covering 0.9 km² (0.35 sq mi) within the volcano caldera.  It is a sacred place of South Bougainvillians, who traditionally believe the souls of their dead go here upon death.
caption: Boys from Buin and Siwai visiting Lake Loloru (1978).
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