Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus is a volcano on Ross Island in Antarctica. It is the most southern active volcano in the world.

Erebus is 3,895 meters (12,779 ft) high.

History

On November 28, 1979, an airplane, Air New Zealand Flight 901, crashed into Mount Erebus during a storm. All 257 people in the airplane died.^[1]

Anorthoclase crystal (45 mm long) from Mount Erebus
Photograph of Mount Erebus (and Adélie penguins) taken by the Terra Nova expedition in 1913
Mount Erebus craters, Ross Island, Antarctica (aerial view, 18 December 2000)
Fuselage of the DC-10 that crashed in 1979 into Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Picture taken 25 years after the crash.
Satellite picture of Mount Erebus showing its lava lake, on Ross Island, Antarctica. For this picture, Autonomous Sciencecraft Software controls the Earth Observing One spacecraft to track activity at Mount Erebus.
Mount Erebus is in the west center
Mount Erebus as seen from McMurdo Sound.*Taken aboard the USS Wyandot during Operation Deep Freeze I.
Barne Glacier

↑ Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand Disasters, "Aircraft Accident: DC. 10 ZK-NZP Flight 901"; retrieved 2012-6-15.

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