Observations of coastal inundation on the western coast of South Pagai Island (Indonesia) in the wake of the 2010 Mentawais tsunami revealed up to 50 % more inundation in areas in the shadow zone of a large island (located 4 km offshore of South Pagai) than in open coastal areas. A series of laboratory tests of long waves impacting islands were conducted to verify this observation. Long waves (both solitary waves and evolving “error function” waves) were generated in a large directional wave basin. Laboratory-scale islands were made from sheet metal in two configurations of two different diameters apiece: a full conical cross-section (representing a volcanic island) and a conical section truncated at the water line (representing a fringing reef). The islands were also located at varying distances from the sloping beach. Video imagery taken from cameras mounted on a tank-spanning bridge was used to quantify the runup in the shadow zone of the island. It is shown that the runup inundation on the beach in the shadow zone of each island is amplified relative to the inundation on portions of the beach not facing an island. Comparisons to existing formulations for solitary wave runup on open coast beaches show increasing deviations from these expressions for cases in which the “effective wavelength” of the solitary wave is smaller than the base diameter of the island. In most cases the runup is greatest when the island is closest to the beach, with the next-highest inundation seen when the island is furthest away. This observation is further buttressed by similar trends in energy characteristics and inundation surface area and may be linked to the greater lateral spread of the long wave disturbance seen in larger island distances.
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