The Darvaza gas crater is located in Turkmenistan, and is effectively a huge fiery pit. It's a natural gas field that has collapsed into a crater, and the supply of gases keeps the fire raging.
It’s a massive hole set alight by Soviet engineers. Obviously. Named the Darvaza gas crater, no one knows how the pit was first formed before it was set aflame. Perhaps there was simply no one ...
Yes, such a place exists and it is in fact a man-made occurrence. Located in Turkmenistan's Karakum desert, the Darvaza Crater, also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, is a 70-meter-wide ...
ASHGABAT, June 19. /TASS/. Specialists from the Turkmengas holding have drafted a plan to extinguish the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert, which has been on fire for more than fifty years ...