Turkmenistan’s Gates of Hell
Landscape Christopher Wilton-Steer Landscape Christopher Wilton-Steer

Turkmenistan’s Gates of Hell

This giant burning gas crater in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan is known as ‘the gates of hell’! It was created in 1971 when a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern.

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