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Native Hawaiians have long attempted to placate the fire goddess Pele by dropping offerings-ohelo berries, liquor and, once upon a time, an occasional human-into the crater of the 4,090-ft. volcano Kilauea. Legend says the fire goddess lives within Kilauea, and it is her outbursts that have made the volcano, located on the big island of Hawaii, the world's most active, erupting on the average of once every 2½ years. But even longtime Kilauea watchers were concerned about the magnitude of the latest demonstration of Pele's power. In mid-September the volcano...
...Dunster House courtyard, which one Dunster House junior who arrived early in the week described as looking like a lunar crater, is under going a face lift. When it's all done in three weeks, the results will be improved drainage in the courtyard and new paths designed along student routes--"paths which students have used over the years," Elizabeth Vorenberg, co-master of Dunster House, said yesterday...
World War II carbine on his shoulder. "The Ethiopian planes dropped napalm, and everything burned," he said later, as he showed us a crater that ran through the village. "But now life has returned. Our village survives...
...variety of that domain is nearly infinite. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the westernmost, boasts a steaming crater, a heat-blasted desert and flows of black lava that lead down to the warm Pacific off the island of Hawaii. Acadia National Park is as green as Hawaii Volcanoes is barren. Cool, thickly forested hills march down to the Atlantic off the coast of Maine, where the water is icy enough to turn the hardiest of swimmers as blue as the summer sky in a matter of minutes...
ANIAKCHAK CALDERA. Located near the eastern end of the Aleutian island chain, the area is a geological oddity-a volcanic crater 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter and dotted with smaller volcanoes. Inside the crater is a remarkable blue-green lake on which seaplanes carrying sightseers can land. The more adventuresome can canoe down the Aniakchak River, which flows out of the lake through a cleft in the crater wall and drops some 600 meters (2,000 ft.) and 43 kilometers (27 miles) to the North Pacific...