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Article: THE LAP OF THE GODS
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2006
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had settled were two stumpy islands that had been the outer edges
of the old volcano. These became known as Thirasia and San-torini.
The 10-mile wide crater lake between them, where the heart of the
volcano had been ripped out, filled up with sea water.
That's what I'm looking down into now, a sight so serene it is
impossible to believe it was once a cauldron of exploding rock.
However, there are small reminders. The grey, flat surface of the
calderais disturbed by three islands that have thrust up from the
seabed in recent centuries. The largest, Nea Kameni, is in fact a
small active volcano. Close up, it is a pile of ugly, rubble-strewn
rock, thrown up as if some giant were down below ...