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The gas crater is near the village of Darvaza in the middle of the Karakum Desert, about 260 kilometres (160 mi) north of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, it has a diameter of 60–70 metres (200–230 ft) [5][4] and has a depth of about 30 metres (98 ft). [6] Another nearby gas crater is fenced off and has a distinct odor. [4] The mud ...
Yanar Dagh view by the road side. The reason offered for the Yanar Dagh fires is the result of hydrocarbon gases emanating from below the Earth's surface. Apart from Yanar Dagh, the most famous site of such a fire is the Fire Temple near Baku, off the Greater Caucasus, which is a religious site known as an ateshgah, meaning temple of fire.
Located in Barangay Panghulo, the Artex Compound was a rent-free housing project built for the workers of the Artex Development Co., Inc., [Note 1] a textile and thread manufacturing factory that has operated since the 1960s. Most of its 1,200 workers and their families lived in the Artex Compound, some for more than 30 years. [5]
The Lut Desert, widely referred to as Dasht-e Lut (Persian: دشت لوت, "Emptiness Plain"), is a salt desert located in the provinces of Kerman and Sistan-Baluchestan, Iran. It is the world's 33rd-largest desert, and was included in UNESCO 's World Heritage List on July 17, 2016. [2] The name is derived from 'Lut' which means bare and empty ...
Rain forest covers 0.25 square kilometres (62 acres) of the island, with the remaining area consisting of barren rocks and open grassland. Queimada Grande ranges from an average of 18.38 °C (65.08 °F) in August to 27.28 °C (81.10 °F) in March, and rainfall ranges from 0.2 millimetres (0.0079 in) per month in July to 135.2 millimetres (5.32 ...
The Malabon Zoo first opened around 1989 and was founded by the Manny Tangco in Barangay Potrero in Malabon, Metro Manila. In March 2020, community quarantine measures imposed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the zoo to the public and caused financial strain to the zoo's maintenance. This led Tangco launching an ...
Baba Gurgur. Baba Gurgur (Arabic: بابا كركر, Kurdish: بابە گوڕگوڕ ,Babagurgur[1][2]) is an oil field and gas flame near the city of Kirkuk, which was the first to be discovered in Northern Iraq in 1927. It was considered the largest oil field in the world until the discovery of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia in 1948.
The flames can be up to five meters (16 feet) high; some of the gas condenses to liquid and is still ignited. [9][10] Ijen is the largest blue flame area in the world. Local people refer to it as Api Biru (Blue Fire). [11] The other location at which blue fire can be seen is in Dallol Mountain, Ethiopia.