Yanar Dag is a 10-meter-long wall of flames burning continuously along the edge of a sandstone hill near Baku. Powered by escaping natural gas, it has blazed for decades.
Yanar Dag
The burning mountain on Azerbaijan's Absheron Peninsula.
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The burning mountain on Azerbaijan's Absheron Peninsula.
Yanar Dag is a 10-meter-long wall of flames burning continuously along the edge of a sandstone hill near Baku. Powered by escaping natural gas, it has blazed for decades.