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Monday, 15 December 2008

Where in the world is...

Posted on 09:43 by Unknown

1) This is the largest in a chain of islands in the Tyrrhenia sea and the legendary home of the sorceress Circe.


2) Throughout 2008 this active stratovolcano has been sending plumes of ash and water vapor over a nearby town, a town that was evacuated in 1994 due to danger from the volcano.


3) Part of an island chain named by Captain Cook for the day on which he discovered them, forty-nine days after Easter Sunday.


4) This is the crater of an extinct tuff-cone volcano, now used as a memorial cemetery.


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