Mount Etna
About Mount Etna
Mount Etna, or simply Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It is located above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe, and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps with a current height of 3,403 m (11,165 ft), though this varies with summit eruptions. For instance, in 2021 the southeastern crater reached a height of 3,357 m (11,014 ft), but was then surpassed by the Voragine crater after the summer 2024 eruptions.
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Mount Etna is given a lot of credit for the reason that the pistachios are so good, because basically the trees are growing out of the kind of volcanic slabs that have been laid down over the passage of time.
from No Such Thing As Cristiano Ronaldo Eating Pistachios, 2022-01-28 at 00:38:38 · read transcript
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It's colder than normal lava. Exactly. It can run at about 500 degrees Celsius, which is much cooler than normal lava. This is really cool. Sicilians used to use the slopes of Mount Etna to keep their food cold. Okay. Because there's snow all over the slopes of Mount Etna. They use the caves in the side of the mountain to keep fruit cold and things like that and lemons and yeah.
37: No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics, 2014-11-28 · listen
Yeah, the lava is run very, very dark. Exactly. It can run at about 500 degrees Celsius, which is much cooler than normal lava. This is really cool. Sicilians used to use the slopes of Mount Etna to keep their food cold. Okay. Because there's snow all over the slopes of Mount Etna. They use the caves in the side of the mountain to keep fruit cold and things like Adam lemons and yeah.
No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics, 2014-11-28 · listen
Because stuff used to get sucked down and disappear, so it might be 150-year-old shoes left over from these soldiers. It might be. They mostly look like baseball caps from the current era. This is an amazing fact. It's incredible. You could wash the dishes by dropping them into like Mount Etna or something and it'll shimmy them around and then exploit them out. They tried to wash dishes in geysers as well. Did they? They tried everything with them. It's truly bizarre.
160: No Such Thing As A Sausage Jacuzzi, 2017-04-13 · listen
If there's a lava fountain that just goes up from the top, again, classic volcano, know, that is sometimes really bad, obviously, but the worst thing is where the side just blows off. That's when you get a big river of lava flowing down the side towards your town, possibly. Okay. I found what I think is probably the greatest photo of Mount Etna erupting, taken by a local. Okay. Okay?
No Such Thing As The Paula Radcliffe Of F1 Racing, 2025-05-29 · listen
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