Tambora, as a place name, may refer to:

• Mount Tambora, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa.

Tambora is also a name used to describe the unidentified civilization (whose people are informally referred to as "Tamborans") inhabiting Sumbawa, discovered by Western explorers shortly before the cataclysmic 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. ... Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain with Lombok to the west and Flores to the east. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

• The civilisation on Sumbawa island has intrigued researchers ever since Dutch and British explorers visited in the early 1800s and were surprised to hear a language that did not sound like any other spoken in Indonesia. Some scholars believe the language was more like those spoken in Indochina. Artefacts uncovered at the site of the eruption of 1815 suggest that Tambora people may have had trade links with Indochina. Pottery uncovered nearby resembles that commonly found in Vietnam.

Tambora may also refer to: The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

• The tambora drum, an Afro-Caribbean musical instrument.

The Tambora (from the Spanish word tambor (drum)) is an Afro-Caribbean musical instrument. ... You might be looking for: the Caribbean — a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea; the British Afro-Caribbean community; the African diaspora This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

References

• "Scientists Claim to Find Lost Civilization", AP via Yahoo! News, February 27, 2006
• 'Scientists find lost civilisation buried by volcano', The Guardian, March 1, 2006