Fogo
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Illustration af Fogo
Fogo (portugisisk for ild) er en vulkansk ø i den kapverdiske øgruppe Sotavento. Fogo er den mest fremtrædende af øerne i denne øgruppe eftersom øens højeste punkt, Vulkanen Fogo, er 2.829 meter over havet. Vulkanen havde sit sidste udbrud i 1995. Ved foden af vulkanen ligger den lille landsby Chã das Caldeiras. Areal: 476 km². Antal indbyggere var i 1991 40.000, men er blevet reduceret til 37.409 i 2001.
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Koordinater: 14°57′N 24°21′V / 14.95°N 24.35°V
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Locator map of Fogo, Cape Verde.png
Forfatter/Opretter: No machine-readable author provided. Waldir assumed (based on copyright claims)., Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0
Forfatter/Opretter: No machine-readable author provided. Waldir assumed (based on copyright claims)., Licens: CC BY-SA 3.0
Fogo, Cape Verde Islands.jpg
The volcano’s most distinctive feature, its nine-kilometre wide caldera, Cha Caldera, is shown in this image. The crater wall in the west towers one kilometre above the crater floor. The eastern half of the crater wall is gone, erased in a massive collapse deep in its ancient history. Evidence of the volcano’s more recent eruptive history is written on the surface of the crater as well. In the centre of the crater, a steep cone named Pico rises about 100 meters above the crater rim (more than a kilometre from the crater floor). The young peak reaches 2,829 meters above sea level, making it the island’s highest point. Dark trails of hardened lava from the volcano's most recent eruptions stream out of the crater east into the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano last erupted in 1995. The sepia stream of lava from that eruption is pooled near the crater rim west of Pico. Remarkably, the crater is inhabited. A straight road cuts between the crater wall and Pico, ending near the vent that erupted in 1995. Bright white dots on the north side of the crater are villages. Residents of the Cha Caldera evacuated during the eruption.
The volcano’s most distinctive feature, its nine-kilometre wide caldera, Cha Caldera, is shown in this image. The crater wall in the west towers one kilometre above the crater floor. The eastern half of the crater wall is gone, erased in a massive collapse deep in its ancient history. Evidence of the volcano’s more recent eruptive history is written on the surface of the crater as well. In the centre of the crater, a steep cone named Pico rises about 100 meters above the crater rim (more than a kilometre from the crater floor). The young peak reaches 2,829 meters above sea level, making it the island’s highest point. Dark trails of hardened lava from the volcano's most recent eruptions stream out of the crater east into the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano last erupted in 1995. The sepia stream of lava from that eruption is pooled near the crater rim west of Pico. Remarkably, the crater is inhabited. A straight road cuts between the crater wall and Pico, ending near the vent that erupted in 1995. Bright white dots on the north side of the crater are villages. Residents of the Cha Caldera evacuated during the eruption.
Fogo-island-perspective.jpg
Fogo island, Cape Verde republic, Atlantic ocean. The image is centered near 14.9 degrees north latitude, 24.4 degrees west longitude. The perspective view was created by draping image data over a DEM derived from ASTER data, and exaggerating the topographic relief by a factor of 2.
Fogo island, Cape Verde republic, Atlantic ocean. The image is centered near 14.9 degrees north latitude, 24.4 degrees west longitude. The perspective view was created by draping image data over a DEM derived from ASTER data, and exaggerating the topographic relief by a factor of 2.