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    Lake Avernus (Italian: Lago d'Averno) is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the Campania region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres...
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    volcanoes, Avernus is approximately 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) in circumference. Within the crater is Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno). Avernus was believed...
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  • Avernus is a volcanic crater in Italy with significance for Roman mythology. Avernus may also refer to: Lake Avernus, a lake in Italy Avernus Colles,...
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    Phlegraean Fields (category Volcanic crater lakes)
    years ago); and more recent activity towards the west, which formed Lake Avernus and Monte Nuovo (New Mountain) (3,800–500 years ago). Volcanic deposits...
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    designation Cimmerian refers to priestesses who lived underground near Lake Avernus. An oracular shrine dedicated to Apollo, as at Delphi, stood on the Acropolis...
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    priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy, near Lake Avernus (i.e., Cumae). The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek...
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  • the free dictionary. Averno may refer to: Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno), a crater lake in south Italy Avernus, entrance to the Roman underworld Averno (poetry...
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    Greeks who settled in Italy identified the Acherusian lake into which Acheron flowed with Lake Avernus. Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second...
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    A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption. Lakes in calderas fill large...
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    Tunnel) is an ancient Roman tunnel nearly a kilometre in length connecting Lake Avernus with Cumae and dating from 38-36 BC. It was burrowed through the tuff...
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