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Mt. Etna. At 10,991 meters tall. Located in Province of Catania, or if you want to be more specific, 37.7510 north and 14.9934 East. Mt. Etna is said to be about 500,00 years old and is one of the most active volcanos in the world. Mt. Etna is also a Stratovolcano with four distinct craters. The myth is that Zeus, the great god of thunder and lighting, was battling the titan Typhon at the time. Now Typhon was a gig giant ugly monster that was pretty hard to defeat and took some bravery just to look at him. Then finally, after a while Zeus took down Typhon and put a Mt. over him just to make sure he wasn't still alive. That mt. today was called Mt. Etna. Now after a couple of years the Earth Greek goddess (Gaia) gave birth to Enceladas to avenge

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