Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
The Selk'nam
The Selk'nam, also known as the Onawo or Ona people were an indigenous people in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina and Chile, including the Tierra del Fuego islands.
They were one of the last aboriginal groups in South America to be reached by Westerners in the late 19th century, when the Argentine and Chilean governments began efforts to explore and integrate Tierra del Fuego (literally, the "land of fire" based on early European explorers observing Selk'nam smoke from their bonfires).
While the Selk'nam are closely associated with habitation of the northeastern area of Tierra del Fuego, their early origins are likely from the mainland, whence they departed by canoe across the Strait of Magellan. Their territory in the early Holocene likely ranged as far as the Cerro Benitez area of the Cerro Toro mountain range, both in Chile.
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
Pakistan earthquake created a new island
We now have confirmation from space that a new island has formed off the coast of Pakistan.
Yesterday, NASA sent their Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite to check on the situation, and it took the picture on the right above (and below).
The island is most likely a pile of mud from the ocean floor that erupted as a mud volcano shortly after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck northwestern Pakistans taken by the Landsat 8 satellite on April 17.
The region has seen mud volcanoes in the past, including one spied by satellites in 2011.
The volcanoes form when mud and or water is squeezed out of the sediment on the ocean floor, which may have been caused by the earthquake in this most recent instance.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
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