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Lava Lake of Democratic Republic of Congo | Nyiragongo Volcano

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Nyiragongo is one of the most active volcanoes on the planet, it is 2,000 meters high and has been little studied since during the last 20 years the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is located, has been constantly at war. At the base of the volcano stretches the city of Goma, increasingly crowded with refugees escaping from rebel and government forces in the interior of the country. The diameter of the largest crater is about two kilometers wide, and in its very center a lake of hot lava is often formed, which this article is devoted to. For a long time, the hot Nyiragongo lava lake was the largest in the world. Wonders of Nature        Goma, which has an estimated population of more than 1 million people crammed                   together, has on many occasions suffered the fury of the volcano. In 1977 the lava descended the mountain at over 90 kilometers per hour, killing several hundred people,  ...

Giant Fingerprint Island of Croatia

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Croatia has 79 large islands, over 500 smaller islets and another 642 small rocky peaks and covering an area of about 3,300 square kilometers. Of these small islands is Baljenac or sound like Bavljenac, situated in front of the Dalmatian coast, to the south of country, and that forms part of Šibenik archipelago. It hardly has 0.14 square kilometers of surface and a length of coast of 1,431 meters.  It is uninhabited, but recently Croatia requested its inclusion in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. The stone walls of Baljenac island is an example of this story and tells us that, in the 16th and 17th centuries, during the Ottoman conquest, the island served as a refuge for the Christians who began to build, stone by stone, a network of walls to protect themselves although it would not be until the 19th century and thanks to the Agriculture, when it reached its current appearance that resembles a human fingerprint. Farmers on the nearby island of Kaprije ended up er...