Quite Off the Beaten Track – ASCENSION I. 🇦🇨

View from Green Mountain across volcanic cinder cones, with Sisters Peak towering over the little town of Two Boats. (© BBC)

“The 7th June anno 1656. Att evening wee arrived att Ascention and anchored on the NW side of the iland. On our rightt hand was a faire sandy bay

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If it Wasn’t for Science, we Might Never have Known – MAYOTTE (🇾🇹) EQs

Aerial view of Mayotte: Petite Terre, with Grande-Terre in the background. Aug. 2018. (© Gil40100, via tripadvisor.com)

On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UTC, many seismographs around the world began scribbling a strange signal that looked only remotely like a normal earthquake. Someone spotted it, and it didn’t take long until, in the social media, tinhattery boiled over the rim and attention-seekers had a heyday.

Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Volcanoes, Congo

Satellite photo of adjoining volcanic fields, Goma and Lake Kivu. Photo courtesy Photovolcanica. http://www.photovolcanica.com/VolcanoInfo/Nyiragongo/Nyiragongo.html

Magical MENENGAI CRATER – Kenya

Panorama of Menengai Crater. (© Stefano & Michael Amani, kenyavacanze.org)

If our reader Cate hadn’t mentioned it in a comment I would never have thought of writing about Menengai Crater.  It is one of the rift volcanoes in western central Kenya, within the wonderful and strange landscape of the Kenyan Rift valley.

ARDOUCÔBA – the Seven-Day-Wonder in the AFAR TRIANGLE

…and the youngest volcano on Earth

Ardoukôba within the Assal-Ghoubbet Rift. View from SE, Lake Ghoubbet in the foreground and Lake Assal behind it. 3D-rendering of Google Earth satellite view.

This is hardly a place the average tourist would choose to use his saved up money and spare time to spend an extended holiday, and yet, it’s the place where many a scientist of any calling would gladly give an arm and a leg to be able to go for an extended research project.

Another Hot Spot: Mt. KARTHALA, Comoros

The pit crater Changouméni (created 1918?) in the northern lobe of the Karthala caldera is filled to the brim with new lava. 17/01/2007. (© OVK)

Piton de la Fournaise – review of the Eruption in Réunion

 

A panoramic view on the top of the volcano. Photo: Sebastian Appelt, Wikipedia

“How strangely Fogo burns, amidst an ocean full of flying fishes”

Fogo – aerial shot taken from an Airbus cockpit 2008. Photo by Aldo Bien, Wikipedia.