A Miyakejima wedding. (Creative Commons)
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This photograph struck me. I borrowed it from the excellent website of geographical mysteries, Atlas Obscura. Here are the details…

 

GAS MASK TOURISM ON THE IZU ISLANDS

 

“The brave souls inhabiting Miyakejima, one of Japan’s Izu Islands, an archipelago just south of Tokyo, have a unique problem. Here, the land rests atop an active volcanic chain that has erupted six times in the last century. However, the danger isn’t just from volcanic eruptions, but from the highest concentrations of poisonous gasses (primarily sulfur) in the world regularly leaking up through the ground…”

 

Fore more on this, click here.

 

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