Burning Mountain
| Burning Mountain | ||
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 Burning Mountain |
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| height | 520 m | |
| location | New South Wales , Australia | |
| Mountains | Liverpool Range , Great Dividing Range | |
| Coordinates | 31 ° 52 '7 " S , 150 ° 53' 58" O | |
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| particularities | Seam fire | |
The Burning Mountain (Eng. Burning Mountain), actually Mount Wingen , is an elevation near Wingen , New South Wales in Australia. The mountain is 520 m above sea level. It is known for the seam fire at a depth of around 30 m, which geologists believe has lasted for 6000 years. The fire advances southwards at a speed of about 1 m per year. The burned-out area is up to 6.5 km from the currently burning zone.
The first settlers considered the phenomenon to be volcanism . Reverend CPN Wilton and Sir Thomas Mitchell realized the real cause around 1830.
Web links
- Burning Mountain , Sydney Morning Herald , Feb. 8, 2004; accessed December 13, 2015
Remarks
- ^ Burning Mountain , Sydney Morning Herald , February 8, 2004; accessed December 13, 2015.
- ^ Joseph Lauterer : Topography of Australia . In: Australia and Tasmania. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1900, p. 416 , digitized version accessed December 12, 2015.
- ^ Andrew Snelling: Australia's Burning Mountain - A challenge to evolutionary time. In: Creation. Volume 15, No. 2, March 1993, pp. 42-46 ( online , accessed December 13, 2015).