Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, and one of only two in Antarctica. Its summit is 12448 feet. The volcano was discovered and named by Sir. James Clark Ross in January of 1841.

It turns out that Mount Erebus spews a fortune in gold across Antarctica — $2.1 million worth of it per year, according to reports. You’d struggle to pan it out of the Antarctic snow, though. Tiny ...

Antarctica, which is home to hundreds of active volcanoes, has one on the continent that spews real gold dust with a monetary value. Mount Erebus, one of the most intense and southernmost active ...

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Engineer Rebecca Williams controls Yeti, a four-wheeled robot that carries a ground-penetrating radar, on the slopes of Erebus volcano. Yeti is scanning over an ice cave created by the heat and gases ...

Mount Erebus: A fiery, active volcano in the land of ice. It is a behemoth soaring over 12,000 feet above the sea ice, and everywhere we went near McMurdo, the mighty volcano loomed. It is the ...

Discover the world’s only volcano that spews real gold dust every day! How does Mount Erebus in Antarctica turn molten lava ...

The cave systems underneath the Antarctic ice could be home to an "exciting new world" of plants and animals. After analyzing DNA retrieved from a cave system underneath the Ross Island volcano Mount ...

Taiwan: Most people don't realize that the island of Taiwan has potentially active volcanoes. One such volcanic center is the Datun (as known as Tatun) Group, a series of domes that are believed to ...