Hiri Mount is forest island with wide 3 km, its area at north of Ternate Island , Maluku Archipelago. Hiri Mount at northside of volcanic archipelago in west Halmahera Island. And this Mount is a volcanic cone, its high 630 m in south of Gamalama Mount.
Ternate (Indonesian: Pulau Ternate) is dominated by the volcanic Mount Gamalama (1715 m). The volcano erupts regularly, covering the island with volcanic dust. Major past eruptions of Gamalama include 1673, when a large, but undetermined number of people were killed, and 1772, when about twenty inhabitants died. The largest recent eruption of Gamalama was in September 1980, when 30,000 of the islands 56,000 residents were forced to temporarily flee to nearby Tidore. The island now has an area of 76 square kilometres (29 square miles) and held a population estimated at 145,143 in July 2003. The town is located at 0°47?N 127°22?E.
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