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Ayelu Volcano
Mount Hazalo, also known as Azalo, or Ayelu is an isolated, rhyolitic stratovolcano in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Afar Region, near the South of the towns of Āfdem and Gewane, and has an altitude of . The district is today inhabited by the Afar people however in the past also by the Doba, Warjih and Harari people. The Battle of Hazalo took place between the Adal Sultanate and Oromo of Gada Michelle in the 16th century. The Afar people have a tradition that, they travelled to this mountain where they settled for a number of years. Here they prospered until their wealth led them to hold weddings and feasts during Ramadan; for this Allah is said to have sent a famine and plagues on them. After this, the people moved to Ifat during its earlier period. Wilfred Thesiger describes his ascent of Mount Ayalu in 1933. He notes that this mountain was the object of an annual pilgrimage by members of the Afar people, who travelled from as far away as Daoe in order to climb to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains In Ethiopia
This is a list of notable mountains in Ethiopia List Notes See also * Amba (geology) * List of volcanoes in Ethiopia * List of highest mountain peaks of Africa, with data on the 47 highest mountains of Ethiopia {{Africa topic, List of mountains in Lists of landforms of Ethiopia, Mountains Lists of mountains by country, Ethiopia Mountains of Ethiopia, Lists of mountains of Africa, Ethiopia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramadan
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (''Fasting in Islam, sawm''), communal prayer (salah), reflection, and community. It is also the month in which the Quran is believed to have been revealed to the Prophets of Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad. The annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the five pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one sighting of the Hilal (crescent moon), crescent moon to the next. Fasting from dawn to sunset is obligatory (''fard'') for all adult Muslims who are not acute illness, acutely or chronic illness, chronically ill, travelling, old age, elderly, breastfeeding, Pregnancy, pregnant, or Menstruation in Islam, menstruating. The predawn meal is referred to as ''suhur'', and the nightly feast that breaks the fast is called ''iftar''. Although rulings (''fatawa'') have been issued declaring that Muslims who live in regions with a midnight sun or pola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Stratovolcanoes
A list of stratovolcanoes follows below. Africa Cameroon * Mount Manengouba, Eboga stratovolcano * Little Mount Cameroon * Mount Cameroon * Mount Oku Democratic Republic of Congo * Mount Nyiragongo, Goma; designated as a Decade Volcano ** It contains an active lava lake inside its crater which overflowed due to cracks in 2002. * Mount Mikeno * Mount Karisimbi * Mount Bisoke * Mount Sabyinyo * Mount Kahuzi Eritrea * Alid Volcano * Dubbi Volcano * Nabro Volcano Ethiopia * Adwa (volcano), Adwa * Aluto * Borawli, Afar Region * Mount Chilalo * Dabbahu Volcano * Mount Fentale Kenya * Mount Kenya, which contains several volcanic plugs on its peak. * Mount Longonot Rwanda * Mount Bisoke, on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. * Mount Gahinga, on the border between Rwanda and Uganda. * Mount Karisimbi, on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. * Mount Muhabura, on the border between Rwanda and Uganda. * Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Volcanoes In Ethiopia
This is a list of volcanoes in Ethiopia. It includes both active and extinct vents. See also * List of mountains in Ethiopia * Geography of Ethiopia * Lists of volcanoes References {{Global Volcanism Program Lists of landforms of Ethiopia, Volcanoes Lists of volcanoes, Ethiopia Volcanoes of Ethiopia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Keir
Derek Keir (born 1979 Johannesburg, South Africa) has been an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Southampton since 2015. In 2013 he received the Bullerwell Lecture award from the British Geophysical Association (BGA) for significant contributions to geophysics. Education and career During 1998–2002 he read geology and geophysics at Imperial College London, gaining an MSc (first class). His PhD (Tectonics and Seismology) was conducted during 2002–2006 at Royal Holloway University of London. He also held a Teaching Fellowship in Geology at Royal Holloway during this time. His thesis was on the earthquake activity of the East African Rift. In 2007 he moved to the University of Leeds as a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) research fellow and as Teaching Fellow in Geology. Keir was appointed Lecturer in Earth Science at University of Southampton in 2011 and became Associate Professor in Geophysics in 2015. His major contribution to science has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InSAR
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, abbreviated InSAR (or deprecated IfSAR), is a radar technique used in geodesy and remote sensing. This geodetic method uses two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to generate maps of surface deformation or digital elevation, using differences in the phase of the waves returning to the satellite or aircraft. The technique can potentially measure millimetre-scale changes in deformation over spans of days to years. It has applications for geophysical monitoring of natural hazards, for example earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides, and in structural engineering, in particular monitoring of subsidence and structural stability. Technique Synthetic aperture radar Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a form of radar in which sophisticated processing of radar data is used to produce a very narrow effective beam. It can be used to form images of relatively immobile targets; moving targets can be blurred or displaced in the formed im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adwa (volcano)
''Adwa'' (also known as Caaduba, Amoissa, or Dabita) (1733 m/5686 ft.) is a stratovolcano in Ethiopia, located in the western Somali Region region and has a 4 by 5 km caldera. Due to the location of the volcano near the boundary between Afar and Issa tribes, little is known about the past and present behavior of the volcano. However, an earthquake and InSAR study conducted by Derek Keir and colleagues shows that a magma intrusion around 5 km deep and 8 km long emanated away from the eastern side of the volcano in May 2000. See also *List of stratovolcanoes A list of stratovolcanoes follows below. Africa Cameroon * Mount Manengouba, Eboga stratovolcano * Little Mount Cameroon * Mount Cameroon * Mount Oku Democratic Republic of Congo * Mount Nyiragongo, Goma; designated as a Decade Volcano ... References Mountains of Ethiopia Stratovolcanoes of Ethiopia Calderas of Ethiopia {{Afar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Roden Buxton
David Roden Buxton FSA (26 February 1910 – 17 November 2003) was an entomologist and employee of the British Council. He is best known for his books on Russian architecture, the ancient churches of Ethiopia, and the wooden churches of Eastern Europe. Early life and education Buxton was born in 1910 in London to Charles Roden Buxton and Dorothy Frances Buxton (née Jebb). His parents met when they were both students at Cambridge University; his father Charles studied Classics at Trinity College while his mother, Dorothy Jebb, read for a degree in Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Newnham College. They married in 1904 in Cambridge before settling in London. Buxton’s father Charles was a lawyer and a parliamentarian, firstly as a Liberal MP then as a member of the Labour party. Both Charles and Dorothy were members of the Society of Friends, and Dorothy, described as a humanitarian and social activist, co-founded the Save the Children Fund with her sister Eglantyne Jebb. Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a travel, journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinus'') is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. Background Pilgrimages frequently involve a journey or search of morality, moral or spirituality, spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Thesiger
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also known as Mubarak bin Landan (, ''the blessed one of London'') was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Thesiger's travel books include '' Arabian Sands'' (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and ''The Marsh Arabs'' (1964), on his time living with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. Early life Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was the son of Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, who was British consul-general in Ethiopia from 1909 to 1919, and his wife Kathleen Mary Vigors. Thesiger's grandfather was Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford. Another Frederic Thesiger, a future viceroy of India and the first Viscount Chelmsford, was an uncle, and the actor Ernest Thesiger was a cousin. Wilfred Thesiger and his younger brother were the only European children for most of his early years in Addis Ababa. He later recalled how impressed he had been on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ifat (historical Region)
Ifat (Harari language, Harari: ኢፋት; ; Somali Language, Somali: Awfat) also known as Yifat, Awfat or Wafat was a historical Muslim region in the Horn of Africa. It was located on the eastern edge of Shewa. Geography According to thirteenth century Arab geographer Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, Ifat was alternatively known as ''Jabarta''. In the fourteenth century Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari, Al Umari mentioned seven cities or domains within Ifat: Biqulzar, Adal (historical region), Adal, Shewa, Kwelgora, Shimi, Jamme and Laboo. Ifat designated the Muslim dominated portion of Shewa in Abyssinia according to post seventeenth century Harari language, Harari texts, its territory extended from the Shewan uplands east, towards the Awash River. History During Islam's inception tradition states the Banu Makhzum and Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad coalitions quarreled in Ifat. According to historian Enrico Cerulli, in thirteenth century Sultan Umar Walasma founded the Ifat Sultanate in Ifat after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
