Here’s a post that will appeal primarily to geography dorks: Danau Sidihoni (pictured above), which I reached by motorcycle during my Lake Toba sojourn, has the distinction of being a lake that is on an island (Samosir) that is on a lake (Toba) that is on an island (Sumatra).
Perhaps someday an enterprising Sumatran developer will build an island on Lake Sidihoni, making Sumatra one of the few islands in the world to have a lake (Toba) with an island (Samosir) with a lake (Sidihoni) with an island (to be named later).
Also, for those keeping score at home: Samosir is the largest island-in-a-lake-on-an-island in the world.
Postscript: A geography-teacher Instagram follower utilized Google Earth to not only determine the lake’s coordinates (2.6015° N, 98.7448° E), he also point out that the lake already contains an island called (rather predictably) Sidihoni Island.
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