Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield
volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from
the Amundsen Sea. It is about 30 kilometres (20 mi) wide with parasitic
vents and a caldera up to 8 kilometres (5 mi) wide. Most of the volcano
was formed by trachytic lava flows. It reached its present height about
200,000 years ago. Snow, ice, and glaciers cover most of Mount Takahe.
With a volume of 780 km3 (200 cu mi), it is a massive volcano; the
parts of the edifice that are buried underneath the West Antarctic Ice
Sheet are probably even larger. It is part of the West Antarctic Rift
System along with eighteen other known volcanoes. A major eruption took
place around 17,700 years ago, possibly forming an ozone hole over
Antarctica. The last eruption occurred about 7,600 years ago; there is
no present-day activity. The name of the volcano refers to the takahē,
a flightless bird from New Zealand.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Takahe>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first official land speed
record, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in
Achères, France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record>
1932:
Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American
football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in
the first playoff game of the National Football League.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_NFL_Playoff_Game>
2017:
An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont,
Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
primum mobile:
1. (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens
in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner
spheres to rotate.
2. (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an
initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
3. (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some
action; a driving force.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primum_mobile>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Was I stupid to love you? Was I reckless to help? Was it
obvious to everybody else That I'd fallen for a lie? You were never on
my side. Fool me once, fool me twice Are you death or paradise? Now
you'll never see me cry There's just no time to die.
--Billie Eilish
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish>
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