Millennium Volcanoes
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Answers to the riddle(s) Mt. Erebus and…
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 Kerguelen Hypervolcano™
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…
Mount Erebus, Ross Island and the Age of Exploration
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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