Lombok Island — Lombok Island Map Poster & Print

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Lombok Island Map Poster & Print

Lombok lies directly east of Bali, across the deep Lombok Strait, and on a map it looks like a compact, roughly square island. The massif of Mount Rinjani fills the northern half, and its contour lines close into a caldera that holds the crescent-shaped lake Segara Anak. South of the mountain the land flattens into a central plain of rice fields, with roads running across it between the island's towns.

The west coast has the most street detail. Mataram, the provincial capital, has grown together with neighbouring Ampenan and Cakranegara into one continuous grid. A coastal road winds north past Senggigi toward the three small Gili islands off the northwest tip. On the south coast the shoreline breaks into a row of headlands and sheltered bays around Kuta, a pattern that looks almost hand-drawn in black and white.

Rinjani rises to over 3,700 metres and is the second-highest volcano in Indonesia. The strait beside the island marks part of the Wallace Line, the biogeographic boundary between Asian and Australian fauna. A Lombok Island map poster shows both scales at once: the single volcanic cone at the centre and, around its edge, the fine coastal detail of coves, fishing villages and offshore islets.