3645 x 2324 px | 30,9 x 19,7 cm | 12,2 x 7,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
3. April 2010
Ort:
Volcan Osorno, Lake Llanquihue, Puerto Varas-Frutillar Road, Patagonia, Chile
Weitere Informationen:
Lake Llanquihue ('Lan-key-way'), having a surface area of 860 square kilometres (330 square miles) is the second largest lake in Chile. Several potentially explosive stratovolcanoes, composed of ash, pumice and andesite lava layers, stand on or near the south east shore of the lake. The 2652 metres (8701 feet) high Osorno Volcano has a classic cone, similar in appearance to Mount Fuji. The uppers slopes are covered in glaciers, due to the high levels of snowfall in the very moist maritime climate of Southern Chile's Los Lagos Region. The volcano, sitting in the 6 km wide caldera of an older volcano, is known to have erupted 11 times between 1575 and 1869. Charles Darwin, in the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, saw an eruption in January 1835. Two other Andean stratovolcanoes, Puntiagudo and Tronador, rise on the skyline behind Volcan Osorno.
