Yanar Dagh, the "burning mountain"


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Yanar Dag, Azerbaïdjan

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Yanar Dag is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Flames jet into the air 3 metres (9.8 ft) from a thin, porous sandstone layer.



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