The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a conservation area situated 180 km west of Arusha, Tanzania. The main feature of the area is the Ngorongoro Crater, which is the world's largest unbroken volcanic caldera. The steep sides of the crater mean that it has become a natural enclosure for a very wide variety of wildlife, including most of the species found in East Africa.
South America´s (6.880m = 22.572ft.) second highest mountain and considered the world´s highest volcano.
It is located at the edge of the chilean Atacama Desert, the world´s driest area.
The highest mountain in Indonesia (outside of Irian Jaya (West-New Guinea)). It is actually just a remainig sidewall of a huge caldera. Zoom out a bit to see the beautiful main caldera with the lake.
The major tourist attraction on Bali, Mt. Batur, which lies in the middle of a huge caldera, visible when you zoom out a bit. It is "slightly" active. Scenic lake in the caldera, too.
Mt. Bromo is a small but extremely popular and active volcano on Java, Indonesia. It lies in a huge caldera which is visible if you zoom out a bit. There are 2 more semi-dormant volcanoes in the caldera
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Snæfellsjökull is a strato volcano with a glacier on its top. It is situated on the most western part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland. The mountain is one of the most famous sights of Iceland, primarily due to the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), written by the French author Jules Verne, in which the protagonists find the entrance to a passage l...
The caldera, one of the largest in the world, contains the city of Aso and extends over 20km in diameter. The caldera contains an active volcano, Nakadake, and several other extinct volcanoes.
At Valle de Santiago, MX there is this set of seven volcanos, one near the other, with lakes inside the craters. There is a people in a near village, that can plant normal seeds and harvest GIANT vegetables. All documented by famous researcher of strange facts: J.J. Benitez.
Haleakala Crater is now a cool, cone-studded reminder of a once-active volcano. Streaks of red, yellow, gray and black trace the courses of recent and ancient lava, ash and cinder flows.
From Wikipedia: The Matterhorn (Fr. Mont Cervin, It. Cervino), is perhaps the most familiar mountain in the Alps. Located on the border between Switzerland and Italy, its graceful pyramid towers over the Swiss town of Zermatt and the Italian town Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche.
The mountain has four faces, facing the four compass points, with the north and south faces meeting to f...
Mount Olympus (also transliterated as Mount Olýmpos, and on modern maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,918 meters high; In Greek mythology, Mount Olympus is the home of the Twelve Olympians, the principal gods in the Greek pantheon
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