This part of Ethiopia is near the border with Djibouti. There seem to be marshes and salt flats and a huge black volcano, and a strange tan mushroom formation on its southwest slope:
maps.google.com/maps
Here are some recent pictures of Ethiopians:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/s.../html/9.stm
maps.google.com/maps
Here are some recent pictures of Ethiopians:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/s.../html/9.stm
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on google earth, Monte Dhamali
Wed, January 11, 2006 - 11:23 AMI plugged the coordinates of 11.294578,41.625824 into google earth's search field (just released for mac - oh yeah) and found that this black volcano is called Monte Dhamali. -
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exploration site
Wed, January 11, 2006 - 11:30 AMSearching on Monte Dhamali there are almost no hits, but one is on a site:
www.traveljournals.net/explor...li.html
... that has photos of Ethiopia and everyplace else on earth, searchable by coordinates:
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Amharic Language
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 12:09 PMThe de facto national language of Ethiopia is Amharic. It's related to Aramaic and has a funky alphabet which you've seen if you've even been to an ethiopian restaurant (highly recommended).
There is a good article on Amharic here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic_language
I was unable to view the language since I didn't have an ethiopian font installed. But the above article had a link to one at:
ftp.ethiopic.org/pub/fonts...zemenu.ttf
I downloaded it and double clicked on it. Font Book opened up. I pressed 'install font'. And the characters on the web page instantly appeared! I didn't have to reboot or even restart Safari. Go Apple.
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