Mount Erebus ( 3, 795 m ), a stratovolcano on

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 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.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

And on the summit of Mount Washington, where thirty-five degrees below zero is commonplace and the wind velocity has registered higher than anywhere else in the world, there is a kind of wisdom to be found that other men often seek in the Himalayas `` because it is there ''.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

In the text, he is credited with winning the battle of Mount Badon.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The larger scheme of Canberra's layout is based on the three peaks surrounding the city, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill.

The main symmetrical axis of the city is along ANZAC Parade and roughly on the line between Mount Ainslie and Bimberi Peak.

The precise alignment of ANZAC parade is between Mount Ainslie and Capital Hill ( formally Kurrajong Hill ).

Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros ( 531 m ) in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.

When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

However, as the main cardo ran up the western hill, and the Temple Mount blocked the eastward route of the main decumanus, a second pair of main roads was added ; the secondary cardo ran down the Tyropoeon Valley, and the secondary decumanus ran just to the north of the temple mount.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

The company quickly grew into the largest industrial site in the Middle East, and in 1934 built a second plant on the southwest shore, in the Mount Sodom area, south of the ' Lashon ' region of the Dead Sea.

* Mount Isa, Queensland is often said to be the world's largest or second largest city by surface area.

In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

A second building, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was also erected on the Temple Mount in 705.

The second location is at Hukok, a village six miles southwest of Safed and twelve miles north of Mount Tabor.

* 1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew " Sandy " Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.

* 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century.

The western range, the second major region, is the Lebanon Mountains, sometimes called Mount Lebanon, or Lebanon proper before 1920.

This area includes such famous peaks as K2 ( Mount Godwin Austen, at 8, 611 meters the second highest peak in the world ).

It is the second highest railway in the world ( following opening of the Qingzang railway in Tibet ), with the Galera summit tunnel under Mount Meiggs at and Galera station at above sea level.

The second highest point can be found on Luzon at Mount Pulog, a peak 2, 842 m above sea level.

* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.

** In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century ; the final death toll tops 800.

* July 31 – Mount Saint Elias, the second highest peak in the United States and Canada, is first ascended.

Mount Uhud is a mountain north of Medina which was the site of the second battle between Muslim and Meccan forces.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

The system opened on 11 October 1906 operating two routes from Flemington Bridge — one to Essendon via Mount Alexander Road, Pascoe Vale Road, Fletcher Street and onto Mount Alexander Road again ( with a short branch line along Puckle Street ), and the second to Saltwater River via Mount Alexander Road, Victoria Street, Racecourse Road, Epsom Road, Union Road and Maribyrnong Road.

Corfu's coastline spans including capes ; its highest point is Mount Pantokrator (); and the second Stravoskiadi, at.

At, Grand Teton abruptly rises more than above Jackson Hole, almost higher than Mount Owen, the second highest summit in the range.

The second Slovene full-length film, recorded in the following year, was titled The Slopes of Mount Triglav ().