Ferdinandea Island, between Sicily and Tunisia
Ferdinandea island (also known as Graham Island, Graham Bank, or Graham Shoal; French: Ile Julia), is a submerged volcanic island 30 kilometers southwest of Sicily…
Geography
Stromboli Volcano, Italy
Stromboli (/ˈstrɒmbəli/ STROM-bə-lee, Italian: ˈstromboli; Sicilian: Struògnuli (ˈʂː(ɽ)wɔɲɲʊlɪ); Ancient Greek: Στρογγύλη, romanized: Strongýlē) is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupting nearly continuously since…
Dallol Volcano, Ethiopia
The Dallol volcano, or more specifically the Dallol hydrothermal field, is located in a remote section of Ethiopia’s Erta Ale Range, in the northern Danakil Depression.…
Astove Atoll, Indian Ocean
Astove Atoll is a large atoll that is stunningly gorgeous; it is a colorful world. It is part of the Aldabra Group and is located…
Circumhorizontal Arc
Circumhorizontal arcs, often known as “fire rainbows,” are an optical phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight or moonlight in plate-shaped ice crystals floating in…
Sun Dog (Formation, History, and Etymology)
A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also known as a parhelion (plural parhelia) in meteorology, is a natural optical phenomenon that appears on…
Volcano Research Advances our understanding of the Deep Structure of Volcanoes
Because of the inherent difficulty of seeing beneath the Earth’s surface, geoscientists have struggled to understand the deep structure of volcanoes. To gain a more…
Bárðarbunga Volcano, Iceland
Bárðarbunga (Icelandic pronunciation: ˈpaurðarˌpuŋka) is a big central volcano in Iceland that lies beneath the 500-meter-thick Vatnajokull glacier. Bárðarbunga, Iceland’s second tallest peak at 2,009 meters…
Cape Breton Island, Canada
The stunning natural beauty and safe, friendly villages of Cape Breton Island (French: Île du Cap-Breton, formerly Île-Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap…
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador (/ˈnjuːfənlænd … ˈlæbrədɔːr/), abbreviated as NFLD, is a Canadian province made up of the island of Newfoundland and a larger mainland component to…
Baffin Island, Canada
Baffin Island (previously Baffin Land) is Canada’s biggest and fifth-largest island in the world, located between Greenland and the Canadian mainland. It is the largest island…
Devon Island, Canada
Devon Island (Inuktitut: ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᑦ, Tallurutit) is the largest of the Parry Islands in the Arctic Ocean, south of Ellesmere Island and west of Baffin Bay,…
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