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1 Armchair volcano watching Graham Durant Questacon Australia

2 Syrtlingur 1965

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5 1500 active or dormant volcanoes about 30 erupting at any one time

6 6 th century voyage of St Brendan the navigator

7 Olaus Magnus - History of the Nordic Peoples (from 1555)

8 a lake burning of fire and sulphur

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10 Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus "Carta Marina satellite images". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -

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12 Eruption of the Monte Nuovo in 1538 near Pozzuoli (Gulf of Naples) contemporary woodcut - 16th century

13 Etna 1637

14 Vesuvius 1631 eruption

15 Campi Phlegraei William Hamilton

16 View of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius which began the 23rd of December 1760, and ended the 5th of January 1761, after a drawing taken on the spot by Mr Fabris, when that eruption was in full force.

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18 Frederick Polydor Nodder, artist, Plate 2 from the paper An Account of Morne Garou, a Mountain in the Island of St. Vincent, with a Description of the Volcano on Its Summit In a Letter from Mr. James Anderson, Surgeon, to Mr. Forsyth, His Majesty's Gardener at Kensington... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.75 (1785), pp

19 Joseph Wright Vesuvius in Eruption, 1774 Gouache on paper Derby Museums & Art Gallery

20 JMW Turner, The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent at Midnight, on the 30th of April, 1812, from a Sketch Taken at the Time by Hugh P. Keane, Oil on canvas, University of Liverpool Art Gallery & Collections, The Bridgeman Art Library

21 Mt. Pelee eruption Martinique 1902 National Library of Congress image

22 Destruction of St Pierre, 1902, Tempest Anderson photograph

23 Kilauea eruption Hawaii May Oliver Emerson

24 Kilauea Iki eruption January D.H.Richter

25 Kilauea 2011

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27 Montserrat 2010, MVO image

28 Popocatepetl April Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

29 Calbuco, Chile, 22 April 2015 EPA/ALEX VIDAL BRECAS

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31 Eyjafjallajokull 2010

32 Stromboli 2012

33 Anak Krakatoa, Indonesia

34 Eruption off the coast of Tonga, March 18 th, 2009 Photographer Dana Stephenson. (Dana Stephenson/Getty Images)

35 Etna July Boris Behncke

36 Shinmoedake, Japan, January , Reuters

37 Shiveluch 2013

38 West Mata, Pacific, 2009, NOAA

39 El Hierro 2012

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41 Kilauea, Hawaii, 6 December 2011

42 Kilauea, Hawaii, January

43 Pu u O o, Big Island, Hawaii

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45 Erta Ale, Ethiopia

46 Nyiragongo lava lake DR Congo January 2011 Photos by Tom Pfeiffer, Volcano Discovery

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48 Nyamulagira, January 2012

49 Sakurajima, March APOD NASA image

50 Volcanoes in HD

51 Cleveland Volcano, Alaska, 2006 photographed from the International Space Station

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53 Mt. Curry, South Sandwich Islands May 2, 2012 Image courtesy of NASA

54 Havre seamount July 2012

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81 ETNA - eruption column and lava fountain from the new southeast crater seen from an airplane passing to the northeast during the 5 January 2012 eruptive episode Photo taken by Gloria Guglielmo

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89 "British Tertiary Volcanic Province" by Hazel Muzzy - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -

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