Geography

Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily.

Throughout the eight years of the volcano's activity, there were only quiet outpourings of lava.

Roggeveen called it Paasch-Eyland (the 18th-century Dutch name for "Easter Island").

Lake Como (Largo di Como) is a glacial lake in Lombardy, Italy.

Missionaries arrived on the island in the 1860s, and by the 1870s, Easter Islanders had adopted Catholicism.

The source of the Nile, sought after for thousands of years, turned out to be the Kagera River.

Despite its cold waters, over 80 fish species live in the lake.

In the 4th century A.D., small religious communities of anachorites began to form in Cappadocia.

During the last 300 million years, the majority of Uluru was formed by softer rocks eroding away.

Thanks to the massively rising mist created by water falling from high altitudes, rainbows are a common sight here, which are visible even at night when the sunlight reflected from the moon is scattered in the misty clouds of the waterfall.