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Waiotapu is an active geothermal area at the southern
end of the Okataina Volcanic Centre, just north of the Reporoa caldera, in New
Zealand's Taupo Volcanic Zone. It is 27 kilometres south of Rotorua. The area has many hot springs noted for
their colourful appearance, in addition to the Lady Knox Geyser, Champagne Pool,
Artist's Palette, Primrose Terrace and boiling mud pools. Source
A tornado is
a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of
the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus
cloud. They are often referred to as twisters
or cyclones,
although the word cyclone is used
in meteorology, in a wider sense, to name any closed low pressure circulation.
Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes. Source
Tag :// Amazing,
Tag :// Nature
The Big Hole,
Open Mine or Kimberley Mine is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley,
South Africa, and claimed to be the largest hole excavated by hand, although
this claim is disputed. The first
diamonds here were found on Colesberg Kopje by members of the "Red Cap
Party" from Colesberg on the farm Vooruitzigt
belonging to the De Beers brothers. Source
Torres del Paine
National Park is a national park
encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia.
The park is one of the 11 protected areas of the Magallanes Region and Chilean
Antarctica. Together, the protected forested areas comprise about 51% of the
land of the region (6,728,744 hectares). Source
Watkins Glen State
Park is located outside the village of Watkins Glen, New York, south of Seneca
Lake in Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes region. The park's lower part is
near the village, while the upper part is open woodland. It was opened to the
public in 1863 and was privately run as a tourist resort until 1906, when it
was purchased by New York State. Since 1924, it has been managed by the Finger
Lakes Region of the New York State Office of Park. Source
A swell, in
the context of an ocean, sea or lake, is a series of mechanical waves that
propagate along the interface between water and air and so they are often
referred to as surface gravity waves. These series of surface gravity waves are
not generated by the immediate local wind, instead by distant weather systems,
where wind blows for a duration of time over a fetch of water. Source
