The catastrophic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_eruption_of_Mount_Lamington" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1951 eruption of Mount Lamington">eruption of Mount Lamington</a> in Papua New Guinea claims 2,942 lives.<sup about="#mwt62" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"NGDC"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-NGDC-11"}}' id="cite_ref-NGDC_11-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_21#cite_note-NGDC-11" id="mwrQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwrg">[11]</span></a></sup>