Sentences with phrase «old volcano crater»

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the are...

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the area - and, by comparison, receives little of the acclaim it deserves... The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg park opened in 1979 in one of the largest game resettlement projects in the history of South Africa, and possibly the most expensive as commercial farmers gave over land to be restocked with wildlife.

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Other things to see besides Kona, the volcano craters with bubbling lava flows into the Pacific Ocean are an amazing sight and old lava tubes are fun to explore with Eco systems that seem prehistoric, many open to the public, one is over 22 miles long (bring lots of batteries and extra strong Kona Coffee brew).

A steep lava dome (dark area just left of center) is swelling rapidly inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, next to an older dome that emerged after the volcano erupted in 1980.

James Turrell has completed his «Naked Eye Observatory» inside an extinct volcano in Arizona on top of a 400,000 - year - old crater that you can now go visit..

However, the volcanic crater hypothesis didn't satisfy Darwin; he thought the atoll shape was too regular to have been the craters of old volcanos.