Nisyros Volcano 4K | Crater Stefanos | Greece | Europe

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Top contributor Joe Paskes created this marvelous aerial video of Nisyros, a volcanic Greek island. Nisyros is part of the Dodecanese group in the eastern Aegean Sea, which lie much closer to mainland Turkey but which in fact are Greek possessions having been colonized by Greece during the Antiquity. The island is a relative infant in geological terms, having been formed only about 150,000 years ago. The video will take you right over the main crater of the volcano, which last erupted in 1888.

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Summer 2017... near small village Nikea The walls of the crater play white, yellow, orange, feel like ... in a volcano. The bottom of the crater is full of vents, holes in the ground where bubbling gas escapes, there are bright yellow sulfur crystals. Stefanos is allegedly not older than 4000 years, it is about 300 meters wide and 27 meters deep. Volcanic activity in the caldera has been freatical in recent centuries, the lava eruption experienced by Nisyros for the last time about 20,000 years ago. In 1871, after the earthquake, the Megalos Polyvotis and Alexandros craters opened and the island covered the fog of escaping steam. A similar eruption was repeated six years later, and the crater Mikros Polyvotis created the accompanying landslides.