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Angry volcano

Here’s an inverted radar image of the craters on Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland’s erupting volcano:

The first image was inverted by the Coast Guard, to show what it called the volcano’s “threatening face.” Perhaps they were influenced by the fact that this volcano is close to another more active one, Hekla, which a tourist map posted on The Icelandic Review’s Web site notes “was believed to be the gate to Hell in olden times.”

The New York Times has a linked-filled page here with video.

If you really want to get with it, learn how to pronounce it: “AYA-fyatla-jo-kutl.”

Posted in GeoFacts.


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