In Greek myth Erebus was the son of the god Chaos, and his mother was Gaia, or Earth. Erebus was made of darkness and shadow, and he filled the corners of the world with his darkness.
The flanks of Erebus are spiked with ice towers, hundreds of them, called fumaroles. Gas and heat seeping through the side of the volcano melt the snow-pack above, carving out a cave. Steam escaping from the cave freezes as soon as it hits the air, building chimneys as high as 60 feet.
Mount Erebus' ice caves are among the most promising places for undiscovered life in Antarctica. Though they grow or shrink depending on how much heat the volcano emits, inside they maintain a temperature of about 32 degrees.
Mount Erebus volcano - one of the world's weirdest geological marvels, located on the western half of Ross Island, Antarctica, is the world's southernmost historically active volcano and famous for its active boiling lava lake. It was discovered by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross on January 27, 1841.
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