The island has an active volcano, Mount Pelee, which erupted in 1902, razing the town of Saint-Pierre and killing its 30, 000 residents.

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Mount Rainier is also an active volcano - although there has been no activity since the 1850s and geologists say there is no imminent threat of eruption.

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We pass a white wall of mountains off to the left and, on the right, an active volcano with steam curling out of the vent.

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Silicon Valley is always evolving, like an active volcano that erupts every few years with creative destruction that brings forth a new formulation of ideas, technologies, and commercialization.

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Via i09: Nature photographer and scientist Richard Roscoe once took a page from MythBusters and decided to find out what would happen if a person ever fell into an active volcano.

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In a New York magazine story, she describes living in Indonesia in her early 20s, where she suffered hepatitis, had her leg operated on without benefit of anesthesia, and almost fell into an active volcano.

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Lying in the shadow of the active volcano Mt Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes is an unrivalled natural landscape where water is clean enough to drink, sweet-smelling air comes alive with native birdsong and fern-filled forests are as bright as a bottle of absinthe.

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