The lights of Goma town in the background left remind me of standing on Etna volcano and looking down to Catania... (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Nyiragongo volcano (DRCongo), Jan 2011: observing the lava lake
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Volcanic trio: Batok cinder cone, smoking Bromo, and majestic Semeru with an umbrella cloud (c) --- image found in: The Tengger caldera at sunrise (July 2008)
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Moonless night over the Danakil desert looking north towards Polaris standing low above the horizon. The glow of distant Erta Ale volcano is visible in the right. (Photo:... --- image found in: Erta Ale volcano Nov 2010: people on the volcano
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The complex of Marum crater and its surrounding pit craters: Mbwelesu (l), Marum's west pit with the lava lake (a.l.), smoking Niri Mbwelesu (c), and Niri Mbwelesu Tatem ... --- image found in: Vanuatu May 2009: Ambrym - aerials
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Eruption at Semeru volcano with smoking Bromo and the eroded cone of Batok volcanoes in the foreground. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Tengger caldera (additional photos)
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Smoking Bromo volcano and Batok cone with its deep radial erosion gullies (c) --- image found in: Expedition to Krakatau, Bromo and Semeru (July 08)... and in: The Tengger caldera at sunrise (July 2008)
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Lonely trees looking towards neighboring Tilos island. (c) --- image found in: Nisyros March 2008: springtime
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Looking into one of the deep pit craters inside Bembow volcano, Ambrym (Vanuatu). The northern wall is crusted over with yellow sulfur deposits mostly from sublimation of... --- image found in: Ambrym August 2011... and in: Photo of the Day
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Smoking Bromo volcano (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Volcano tour around the world: photos
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Cooking mud pool at Cipanas (Photo: Tobias Schorr) --- image found in: Java & Krakatau July 2009
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Smoking fumaroles of the Papadayan volcano (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
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The smoking crater of Benbow seen from the air. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Vanuatu May 2009: Ambrym - aerials
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Steve looking down with amazement (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Stromboli to Etna Oct 08 (part 2): Stromboli
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Fog in the caldera, smoking Bromo, the cinder cone of Batok, and an eruption from Semeru volcano in early sunlight (c) --- image found in: Tengger caldera (additional photos)
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Smoking Papadayan´s fumaroles (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
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Smoking fumaroles and our tour guide Andy at Papadayan volcano (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
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The cooking area of the expedition camp on Ambrym. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Vanuatu May 2009: expedition life
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The lava lake in Marum's west crater, and smoking Niri Mbwelesu crater containing another active vent to the right. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Vanuatu May 2009: Ambrym - aerials
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Looking down from the crater rim onto the plain of the Rift Valley (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, Feb 2007
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We're looking from the top of a hornito onto the eruptive fissure. Ines is standing there for scale. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Stromboli to Etna Oct 08 (part 5): Excursion to Grotta del Gelo
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We're on the NE rift zone; to our left, a pit crater, a few hundred meters upslope the still smoking upper part of the Oct 2002 eruptive fissure, the Pizzi Deneri and Nor... --- image found in: Stromboli to Etna Oct 08 (part 5): Excursion to Grotta del Gelo
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Smoking fumaroles and colorful deposits on the inner crater walls (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Stromboli to Etna Oct 08 (part 3): Etna summit craters
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Tom Pfeiffer is looking for the rare and deep blue Hauyn crystals (Photo: Tobias Schorr) --- image found in: Eifel Excursion 30.8.2008
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Umbrella cloud over Semeru, smoking Bromo volcano in the misty shadow (c) --- image found in: Tengger caldera (additional photos)
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A drying-out pond containing ill-looking red water inside the crater of Papandayan volcano. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Papandayan volcano (West Java) - photos... and in: Volcanoes of Java trekking tour: photos... and in: From Krakatau to Bali tour: photos... and in: Photo of the Day
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-80 m a.s.l. We have reached the flat bootom of the Danakil depression. A large, fresh-looking lava flow covers much of the area here. The extension and sinking of the ea... --- image found in: Additional Photos: Danakil 02/08... and in: Salt, please: from 2300 m to -120 m a.s.l. (tour diary, Feb. 08)... and in: Lava flows
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Spooky looking cloud of smoke coming out of Halema'uma'u Crater in Kilauea Caldera, Big Island, Hawaii (Photo: Janka) --- image found in: Photo of the Day
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Looking towards the cone of Anak Krakatau, altered ground and fumaroles in the foreground. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Krakatau volcano (Indonesia) July 2012: fumarole fields
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Looking towards Rakata Island, the largest remnant of the pre-1883 Krakatau island. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Krakatau volcano (Indonesia): Anak Krakatau in July 2012
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Smoking crater of Anak Krakatau volcano (July 2012) (Photo: Dietmar) --- image found in: Photo of the Day
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Looking north from inside the crater of Mutnovsky volcano (2322 m), Kamchatka: the Mutnaya river erodes the N flank of the crater exposing old strata of ash and pyroclast... --- image found in: Photo of the Day
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Glacier Spring Valley with smoking Bezymyanny volcano in the background (Photo: Anastasia)
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Looking back to the wastelland on the way up to Tolbachik's crater (Photo: Anastasia) --- image found in: Photo of the Day
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Looking into the summit crater of Pacaya volcano (Photo: Yashmin Chebli) --- image found in: Volcanoes of Guatemala tour Jan 2012 - photos
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Hot smoking lava blocks float to the surface above the submarine vent (Nov 2011). (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: El Hierro (Canary Islands): photos Nov 2011
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As we continue south, we have an impressive panorama with the red inner crater walls, the "smoking" SE crater behind and tiny shapes of tourists groups who stay close to ... --- image found in: Etna volcano trekking: photos from an excursion in Oct 2011
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Approaching the runway of Santorini airport - the southern plain and Mesa Vouno mountain in the foreground looking west. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Hot springs in the area feed swamps and let bushes and small trees grow. Locals produce charcoal here and sell it in this town in the middle of the Afar triangle. Charcoa... --- image found in: Danakil expedition Nov-Dec 2010: Rift Valley & Danakil desert
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Smoking Fuego volcano at sunset (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Fuego volcano
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Smoking vents in Stromboli's crater (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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Looking down onto the crater lake of Empakai. Flamingoes are flying in formation above the lake. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Empakai crater (Ngorongoro Highlands): flamingoes, obsidian and stromatolites
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Ines and Rosario in the cave, looking at some ice stalactites. A mountain-like stalacmite is in the right foreground, caused by accumulation of dripping and freezing wate... --- image found in: Stromboli to Etna Oct 08 (part 5): Excursion to Grotta del Gelo... and in: Stromboli to Etna: tour photos
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This funny-looking spatter cone needed an extra lateral pressure valve when it was active... (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Stromboli to Etna Oct 08 (part 5): Excursion to Grotta del Gelo
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Sunny day at Sarakiniko, overlooking a bay (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Milos Island, Greece: photos from Oktober 2008 - additional photos
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Calcified roots and branches abound in the ash deposit, looking like white bones. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Milos Island, Greece: photos from Oktober 2008 - Sarakinikos coast
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A dog supports the no-smoking campagne of European Community :-) (Photo: Tobias Schorr) --- image found in: Santorini June 2008
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Smoking Bromo and gullied Batok cinder cone (c) --- image found in: Tengger caldera (additional photos)
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Smoking Stromboli seen from the ferry. (c) --- image found in: Stromboli excursion (Oct 07)
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Rosario looking into the Valle del Bove depression on the SE flank of Etna. (c) --- image found in: Excursion on Etna - climbing the summit craters (Oct. 07)
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2900 m a.s.l. On our hike back, we pass south of the southeast crater, looking at the recent lava flows from a vent at the lower east flank of the cone. (c) --- image found in: Excursion on Etna - climbing the summit craters (Oct. 07)
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On the flat eastern rim of Bocca Nuova, looking towards the southeast crater. (c) --- image found in: Excursion on Etna - climbing the summit craters (Oct. 07)
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Weakly smoking Lengai volcano seen from the plain of the Rift Valley near Lake Natron. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Lake Natron - Lengai volcano - Lake Manyara: photos... and in: Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano (Tanzania) - ash eruptions (18 January 2008)
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We have climbed back up to great elevation: +150 m a.s.l. and reached the base of Erta Ale, which can be seen smoking in the rcenter right. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Salt, please: from 2300 m to -120 m a.s.l. (tour diary, Feb. 08)
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A fresh-looking lava flow occuies a depression alongside the road. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Salt, please: from 2300 m to -120 m a.s.l. (tour diary, Feb. 08)... and in: Additional Photos: Danakil 02/08... and in: Lava flows
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We're looking at the painted interior walls of Abraha Azba church from the 7th century. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) --- image found in: Ethiopia: colors (Jan-Feb. 2008)... and in: Additional Photos: Danakil 02/08... and in: Salt, please: from 2300 m to -120 m a.s.l. (tour diary, Feb. 08)
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