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Link: Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World

February 28th, 2011 by Robert Simmon

Wow. 28 photographs from within the crater of Nyiragongo Volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Thanks to Zuid Wal, commenting on the Eruptions blog.)

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2 Responses to “Link: Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World”

  1. Adam Barr says:
    March 3, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    First of all these people are crazy getting that close to that lava lake !! But wow those photos are breath taking, not somewhere I would want to get too close too though. 🙂

  2. Harry Mc Laughlin says:
    March 25, 2011 at 7:44 am

    Magnificent! (Of course once the boy’s and girls from Health and Safety saw these pictures the scientists and there teams were immediately put on unpaid suspension until the result of a Board of Enquiry!)

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