Amazing places on the Earth #2

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Aogashima volcano


Aogashima is a volcanic island in the Philippines Sea. The island is located about 350 km south of Tokyo. It is the southernmost and isolated island of the Izu archipelago.

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Petra Jordan


Petra is a historic city in the southern province of Ma'an in Jordan. The city is renowned for its architecture and water piping system. Petra is also called the Pink City because of the color of the stone from which it is carved.

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Hillier Lake


Hillier Lake is a saline lake at the edge of Middle Island, the largest of the islands that make up the Recherche Archipelago on the south coast of Western Australia.

The lake is famous for its pink color. Color that is supposed to be due to the unique organism that lives there called, Dunaliella salina. Another hypothesis argues that pink color is due to red halophilic bacteria from salt crusts.

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