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Mount Erebus (/ ˈ ɛr ɪ b ə s /) is the ... A glacier on the west side of Fang Ridge, separating the old and new craters of Mount Erebus. Charted by Frank Debenham ...
The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) [nb 1] flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. [1] [2] Air New Zealand had been operating scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flights since 1977.
The Erebus hotspot is a volcanic hotspot responsible for the high volcanic activity on Ross Island in the western Ross Sea of Antarctica. Its current eruptive zone, Mount Erebus, has erupted continuously since its discovery in 1841. Magmas of the Erebus hotspot are similar to those erupted from hotspots at the active East African Rift in ...
In Greek mythology, Erebus (/ ˈ ɛr ə b ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized: Érebos, lit. 'darkness, gloom'), [ 2 ] or Erebos , is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony , he is the offspring of Chaos , and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of ...
The old generator plant, 2004. ... Ross Island's Mount Erebus looms over McMurdo and Scott in the polar twilight. ... Erebus crystal;
Mount Erebus is a 3,112-metre (10,210-foot) mountain summit located near the Tonquin Valley of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. Mount Erebus is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Cambrian period, then was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny . [ 2 ]
The story behind Erebus Haunted House in Pontiac makes guests come back for more nightmare fuel. Dr. J. Colbert built the world’s first working time machine in the area, but it malfunctioned and ...
10 March – Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David accompanied by Ernest Shackleton and others are the first people to scale Mount Erebus in Antarctica. 30 March – Commonwealth Quarantine service came into operation and took over quarantine stations in every state. 20 April – 44 are killed and 400 injured in the Sunshine train ...