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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.
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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Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for "she-goat") originally referred to: Chimera (mythology) , a fire-breathing monster of ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals Mount Chimaera , a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia typically considered the inspiration for the myth
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Kodiakkarai also called Point Calimere or Cape Calimere, is a low headland of the Coromandel Coast, in the Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.The Cape is located about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Vedaranyam in the delta region of the Cauvery River, and marks a nearly right-angle turn in the coastline.