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Mountains and volcanoes around the world. |
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 | Toba is a supervolcano in the middle of the Indonesia island of Sumatra.
A large lake, 100km long and 30 km wide, now sits in the calderas.
the Dutch geologist van Bemmelen, in 1949, first found that Lake Toba was surrounded by a vast layer of ignimbrite rocks.
Later researchers found rhyolite ash similar to that in the ignimbrite around Toba in Malaysia and 3000 km away... |  | 12/07/2005 | 704 | 
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 | Serra dos Órgãos, a hill resembling some humans organs close to Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil. |  | 12/05/2005 | 201 |
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 | Bondinho de Ubajara (Ubajara Tram), at climbing up the Serra Grande (Great Hill), in the Brazilian state of Ceará. Between Fortaleza/CE and Teresina/PI - Brazil. | | 12/05/2005 | 183 |
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 | Serra de Guaramiranga (Guaramiranga Hill), in the Brazilian state of Ceará, Brazil. Quite close to Fortaleza. | | 12/04/2005 | 193 |
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 | One of the few high resolution parts in macedonia, former jugoslavia, beautiful mountain landscape |  | 12/03/2005 | 461 |
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 | K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, and is thought by many climbers to be the ultimate climb. Its giant pyramid peak towers in isolation, 12,000 feet above the wide Concordia glacial field at the head of the Baltoro Glacier. The sheer icy summit is flanked by six equally steep ridges. Each of its faces presents a maze of precipices and overhangs. K2 was long considered unclimbable. ... | | 11/30/2005 | 1,592 |
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Nanga Parbat, whose name means Naked Mountain, is the ninth highest mountain in the world, and the westernmost mountain of the Himalayas. Its vast snowy face is a powerful spectacle when seen from the arid Indus Valley, approaching the mountain from the west. Here the mountain towers in isolation over 22,000 feet from the valley floor.
The mountain is easy to reac... | | 11/30/2005 | 511 |
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 | Monte Roraima is the highest mountain in Brazil. In real world it's 3014m (or 9888ft) high. Brazil, enven being very large, is not that high! It's located in the triple frontier between Brazil, Venezuela and Guiana. | | 11/28/2005 | 278 |
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 | Chapada do Apodi, between the Brazilian states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba - northeastern Brazil. | | 11/28/2005 | 241 |
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 | Serra Gaúcha, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. If you want to see snow in Brazil, that's the right place to go during the southern winter (July/August/September). Gramado, Canela, Caxias do Sul and other cities are around! |  | 11/28/2005 | 293 |
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 | Serra da Capivara National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara), in the Brazilian state of Piauí, is famous by being the home for some ancient civilizations in South America. São Raimundo Nonato, Piaui, Brazil. | | 11/27/2005 | 220 |
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 | Chapada da Diamantina, the highlands of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Brasil | | 11/27/2005 | 347 |
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 | Mount Napier, one of the youngest volcanoes in Australia, is a composite lava shield with a superimposed scoria cone. The cone rises 150 m above the surrounding plains to an elevation of 440 m making it the highest point on the Western District Plains of Victoria. It erupted about 5,290 BC | | 11/27/2005 | 210 |
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 | The Island of "Ouessan" (in english "Ushant", in Breton "Enez Eusa") marks the north western most point of France. | | 11/26/2005 | 249 |
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 | A webcam pointing at Mt. St. Helens, great for watching erruptions.. the webcam is from Johnston Ridge Observatory | | 11/24/2005 | 998 |
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 | Glass house mountains and pineapples plantations
70 Km north of Brisbane, Australia | | 11/23/2005 | 279 |
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 | a huge snow wall in the everest mountains | | 11/10/2005 | 2,540 |
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 | the makaru shan, the fifth highest peak in the world (8463m)in the territory of tibet | | 11/09/2005 | 421 |
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 | A flight through the mountains of afghanistan (high resolution and about 4000m high). Maybe you can find the hiding place of osama b L | | 11/09/2005 | 745 |
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 | Mt. Kailash (6741 m)is perhaps the most sacred of Holy Mountains in Tibet. Together with the two lakes of Mansarovar & Rakas, the region is one of the few truly nature wonders of the world.
Information provided by Dom88:
- Beyond its significance to Buddhist and Bön-po, Kailas is revered by both Hindus and Jains. To Hindus, Kailas is the earthly throne of Shiva. This stems from an... | | 11/08/2005 | 539 |
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 | this thing looks damn cool | | 11/08/2005 | 318 |
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 | Picture was taken before the road expansion construction back in 02/05. | | 11/05/2005 | 404 |
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 | Avachinsky is a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It lies within sight of the capital of Kamchatka Oblast, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Together with neighbouring Koryaksky volcano, it has been designated a Decade Volcano, worthy of particular study in light of its history of explosive eruptions and proximity to populated areas.
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 | Koryaksky is a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It lies within sight of the capital of Kamchatka Oblast, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Together with neighbouring Avachinsky volcano, it has been designated a Decade Volcano, worthy of particular study in light of its history of explosive eruptions and proximity to populated areas.
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 | The Santa Ana Volcano or Ilamatepec is a volcano located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. With a height above sea level of 2,381 metres, its summit is one of the highest points in the country.
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