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Mount Chimaera was the name of a place in ancient Lycia, notable for constantly burning fires. It is thought to be the area called Yanartaş in Turkey, where methane and other gases, such as hydrogen , [ 1 ] emerge from the rock and burn.
Turkey’s Olympos Beydagları National Park is home to the burning rocks of Yanartaş, where flames created by methane emissions once spawned ancient Greek legends.
The place where she lived was called Mount Chimaera. [3] An Irish-born British naval officer named Francis Beaufort surveyed the region in 1811 and concluded that Yanartaş was the fabled mountain, citing the ancient Roman writer Pliny, who had made the same claim.
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Mount Ballyhoo is part of the Aleutian Range. [3] This iconic landmark of the Dutch Harbor area is set in Unalaska Bay as the high point of Amaknak Island of the Aleutian Islands . [ 5 ] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,650 feet (503 meters) above tidewater in approximately 0.3 miles (0.48 km).
Islands of Four Mountains Islands of the Four Mountains, from ISS The Islands of Four Mountains ( Russian : Четырёхсопочные острова ) 52°52′33″N 169°47′42″W / 52.87583°N 169.79500°W / 52.87583; -169.79500 is an island grouping of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska , United States
Shemya or Simiya (Aleut: Samiyax̂ [1]) is a small island in the Semichi Islands group of the Near Islands chain in the Aleutian Islands archipelago southwest of Alaska, at It has a land area of 5.903 sq mi (15.29 km 2 ), and is about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska .
Mount Recheshnoi (also spelled Recheschnoi) is a heavily eroded stratovolcano located near the center of the SW lobe of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.. The northeast flank of Recheshnoi has one of the hottest and most extensive thermal areas in Alaska.