El Hierro (Canaries): novembre 2011
Some impressions from this charming island in the Atlantic Ocean.
La Frontera in the evening (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The large pine forest. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Young pine tree babies starting to grow. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Cinder cone on the south rift zone near La Restina. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The 1000m tall cliff above Frontera (El Golfo), the scar of a giant landslide that remove much of th... [info]
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A protected ocean swimming pool (La Macina) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Foam on the breaking ocean waves (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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A less than 10,000 years old aa lava flow in the coastal flat of El Golfo. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The isolated village Sabinosa (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Coastal road in the western El Golfo depression (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Lighthouse-church Virgen de Candelaria, La Frontera (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Lighthouse-church Virgen de Candelaria, La Frontera, sitting on a relatively young cinder cone. (Pho... [info]
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El Pinar (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Baby pine hoping to grow (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The scar of the large lateral collapse of Las Playas (east coast) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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el-hierro_i49864.jpg (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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South rift zone landscape, El Hierro Island (Canary Islands) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Hot smoking lava blocks float to the surface above the submarine vent (Nov 2011). (Photo: Tom Pfeiff... [info]
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Deserted street in La Restinga (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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A beautiful cinder cone dominates the small fishing harbor of idyllic(?) La Restina (Photo: Tom Pfei... [info]
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Modern architecture in colorful La Restinga (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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During the first weeks of the submarine eruption, several TV crews and numerous observers were at th... [info]
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The semi-desert southern rift zone (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Lapilli-covered ground near a geologically young cinder cone. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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El Pinar village is often at the limit of the clouds produced by the trade winds, descending half wa... [info]
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Houses of El Pinar in the evening sunlight (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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La Frontera and the 1000m high cliff in the last sunlight. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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A large exposed ancient volcanic dyke in the collapse wall of El Golfo and a debris avalanche deposi... [info]
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