Name that Volcano – Mt Erebus Erebus was a primordial Greek god of darkness, the son of Chaos (Khaos). Periodic Table – Atomic Numbers 5 = B 63 = EU 109 = MT 75 = RE 16 = S The letters make up an anagram of Mt Erebus – by putting them in order one…
The Amsterdam St Paul hotspot is one of the weaker hotspots around. It has created the St Paul and Amsterdam Islands, the now active Boomerang Seamount (last known eruption 1995), and an elongated chain of seamounts called the Chain of Dead Poets. These are remnants of the eruptive wake of the Amsterdam St Paul hotspot…
Last week got a bit confused due to the mix-up of the two pictures. This time I have made triple sure that the picture shows the same as the answer. The Score is: 3 Diana Barnes 2 Talla 2 Ursula 2 Doug Merson 2 Hattie 1 Schteve 1 Jim 1 Luisport 1 Heather B 1…
OK, so what in Gódabunga’s name do Swedish stairs and volcanoes have in common! Apart from the fact they can do you a real mischief if you fall down, a staircase in Swedish is trappa and this gives the name to the extensive flood basalt flows of the Traps volcanic provinces from the stair-like appearance…
I have always had a love of the beauty of the Antarctic. When I discovered that a cousin of my grandfather had joined Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic expeditionof 1914 to 1917 as the official photographer, this love morphed into an enduring interest in the early explorations of the Antarctic and then increased to developing an interest in…
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