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  1. The world's southernmost active volcano,
  2. 3,794 m/12,452 ft high, on Ross Island,
  3. Antarctica. It contains a lake of molten
  4. lava, that scientists are investigating in
  5. the belief that it can provide a `window'
  6. onto the magma beneath the Earth's crust.
  7.