It is about 60 miles east from the mainland of Belize (city). The Great Blue Hole is located in the Light House Reef aproximately halfway between Long Caye and Sandbore Caye. The land mass created by the volcano is Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The sleeping giant was grumbling in its sleep.
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When we visited it some years ago we were standing in the viewing gallery when the ground beneath our feet trembled and several windows suddenly cracked. And, with an arrogance than can only be accepted as typical, humanity has built roads and observatories across this no mans land that is little more than a plug over a sleeping yet still active and very large volcano. Sheer walls that formed when the caldera first collapsed encircle this dry and alien place. The crater, which is an enourmous sixteen kilometres across, is a picture of what Hell might look like if it cooled a little. Las Cañadas caldera, Mount Teide – Not dead just sleeping! The UN Committee for Disaster Mitigation has listed Teide for close observation due to its history of powerful eruptions and its location near several large towns.Īt the summit of Mount Teide, one of the largest Island volcanoes in the World is the Las Cañadas caldera.
Seven of the strange geothermal springs are located in the Kannawa area and are known as: Sea or Ocean Hell (Umi Jigoku), Shaven Head Hell (Oniishibozu Jigoku), Cooking Pot Hell (Kamado Jigoku), Mountain Hell (Yama Jigoku), Devil or Monster Mountain Hell (Oniyama Jigoku,) Golden Dragon Hell (Kinryu Jigoku) and White Pond Hell (Shiraike Jigoku). Sadly, as with many incredible natural wonders, the area surrounding it has become over commercialised and “tacky”. These “Hells” are a popular tourist attraction in Japan but are little known outside of the country.
Located in the same area are the “Nine Hells” or ponds that each has its own remarkable character and colour thanks to the variety of minerals in the outflows. NINE HELLS OF BEPPU – JAPANįurther away in the Shibaseki District are Blood – Pond Hell (Chinoike Jigoku) – shown above – and Waterspout Hell (Tatsumaki Jigoku).īeppu, located on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, is the second largest producer of geothermal water in the world. Maori legend attributes their origin to the arrival of the first ancestors / giants who came in the great Araiteuru canoe which was sunk by three great waves at nearby Matakaea. Some of the larger boulders weigh several tonnes and can be up to three metres wide. The erosion of the cliffs often reveals these boulders from the surrounding mudstone allowing them to join those already on the beach. Known as “Moeraki Boulders” they were originally formed on the sea floor from sedimentary deposits that accreted around a core in the same way that a pearl will form around a particle of sand.
These large, spherical, alien and strangely beautiful boulders are mainly located on Koekohe Beach, part of the Otago coast of New Zealand’s South Island. The Moeraki boulders are said to be the pots and chattels from the canoe. It is said by the Maoris that some of the surviving crew of the Araiteuru canoe were turned into stone and became mountains. They too recognised it as a rare and important place attributing healing powers to the milky-white waters.
Apparently Pammakale means Castle of Cotton but the Greco-Romans built a town above it called Heirapolis – meaning “Holy City” or “Sacred City”. As the water evaporated the chalky material condensed and formed layer-upon-layer of Travertine and thus slowly built up the walls over time in the same way that a stalactite forms in a cave. Thousands of years ago earthquakes, which are common in Turkey, created fractures that allowed powerful hot springs to bring water rich in calcium carbonate to the surface. The strange and weirdly beautiful terraced pools of Pamukkale have been appreciated for over two millennia and yet still remain a little known wonder of the world. Pamukkale is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the pools have been closed to the tourists that once bathed in their waters to save them from further damage. They remind us that even in this age of technical and technological marvels there are still amazing places to be discovered. Our planet Earth has many strange and often beautiful places that retain the power to inspire and mystify.
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