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There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.
* 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
* March 9 – A team from Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition becomes the first to reach the crater of Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
* November 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus ( in Antarctica ) on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
* January 27 – The active volcano Mount Erebus in Antarctica is discovered and named by James Clark Ross.
An anorthoclase crystal from Mount Erebus, Antarctica
The expedition's other main accomplishments included the first ascent of Mount Erebus, and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole, reached on 16 January 1909 by Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, and Alistair Mackay.
* Mount Erebus is the second highest volcano in Antarctica, located on Ross Island.
Abbott Peak stands between Mount Erebus and Mount Bird.
Mount Erebus is the second highest volcano in Antarctica ( after Mount Sidley ), and the 6th highest ultra mountain on an island.
Mount Erebus is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes over 160 active volcanoes.
The volcano has been observed to be continuously active since 1972 and is the site of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory run by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
Mount Erebus was discovered on January 27, 1841 ( and observed to be in eruption ) by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross who named it Mount Erebus after his ships, Erebus and Terror ( which were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition ).
Mount Erebus was first climbed ( to the rim ) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's party in 1908.
Dante was designed to acquire gas samples from the magma lake inside the inner crater of Mount Erebus in order to understand the chemistry better through the use of the on-board gas chromatograph as well as measuring the temperature inside the volcano and the radioactivity of the materials present in such volcanoes.
Mount Erebus is currently the most active volcano in Antarctica and is the current eruptive zone of the Erebus hotspot.

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Mount Berlin ( 3, 500 m ) ( 76 ° 03 ' S., 135 ° 52 ' W.
Mount Hampton ( 3, 325 m ) ( 76 ° 29 ' S., 125 ° 48 ' W.
The highest point is just east of where Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York meet ( 42 ° 3 ' N ; 73 ° 29 ' W ), on the southern slope of Mount Frissell, whose peak lies nearby in Massachusetts.
By comparison, when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it released ~ 1. 2 km < sup > 3 </ sup > ( DRE ) of ejecta.
The Tholos ( Ancient Rome ) | Tholos at the base of Mount Parnassus: 3 of 20 Doric column s.
In May 2012, it was announced that 3. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of Stanley Common ( which lies between the Stanley – Mount Pleasant road and the shoreline ) was made safe and had been opened to the public, opening up a three kilometer stretch of coastline and a further two kilometres of shoreline along Mullet's Creek.
In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D < sub > 3 </ sub > spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.
A height of 3. 119 feet ( 951 metres ) is reached at Mount ' Unayzah at the intersection of the borders of Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The highest point in the Japanese Alps is Mount Kita at 3, 193 meters.
The highest point in the country is Mount Fuji ( Fujisan, also erroneously called Fujiyama ), a volcano dormant since 1707 that rises to 3, 776 meters above sea level in Shizuoka Prefecture.
* Highest point: Mount Fuji – 3, 776 m
* 1980 – 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $ 3 billion in damage.
* Nat Ma Taung ( Mount Victoria ), 3, 053 m
Between 1978 and 1988, Port Moresby grew nearly 8 % per year, Lae 6 %, Mount Hagen 6. 5 %, Goroka 4 %, and Madang 3 %.
The Mindoro mountain range begins with Mount Halcon and is further divided into 3.
By way of comparison, the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption was a VEI-5 with 1. 2 km < sup > 3 </ sup > of ejecta.
The backbone of the island is the Barisan Mountain chain, with the active volcano Mount Kerinci as the highest point at 3, 805 m ( 12, 467 ft ), located at about the midpoint of the range.
Turkmenistan's average elevation is 100 to 220 meters above sea level, with its highest point being Mount Aýrybaba ( 3, 139 m ) in the Köýtendag Range of the Pamir-Alay chain in the south-east, and its lowest point in the Sarygamysh Lake ( close to 100 meters below sea level ).
Palestinians would also have " custodianship " over the Temple Mount, sovereignty on all Islamic and Christian holy sites, and 3 / 4 of Jerusalem's Old Quarters.
* Mount Lamington erupted in Papua New Guinea on 18 January 1951, killing 3, 000 people.
** Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US $ 3 billion in damage.
* June 3Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
Mount Fuji is 3. 776 kilometres ( 3, 776 metres ) high

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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Misty Mountains ( also known by its Sindarin name of Hithaeglir — misspelled as Hithaiglin on the original Lord of the Rings map — and as the Mountains of Mist ) is a mountain range, running for 795 miles ( 1280 kilometres ) from north to south, between Eriador and the valley of the Great River, Anduin, and from Mount Gundabad in the far north to Methedras in the south.
Mount Augustus is an inselberg that stands 1106 m above sea level, or approximately 860 m above the surrounding plain, and covers an area of 4, 795 ha.
The highest point in the county is Mount Leinster ( 795 m, 2610 ft ) in the Blackstairs Mountains in the north-west on the boundary with Co. Carlow.

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