The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth

[Serpo]

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA7Mfgd_QI/AAAAAAAAc-0/lmZ8RRKpw88/s1600-h/3656tertwettry.jpg)has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, this island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are endemic, i.e. found nowhere else on Earth

http://lh3.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA7Mfgd_QI/AAAAAAAAc-0/lmZ8RRKpw88/s720/3656tertwettry.jpg


(http://lh3.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA7Mfgd_QI/AAAAAAAAc-0/lmZ8RRKpw88/s1600-h/3656tertwettry.jpg)http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

[Glass]

where is it?

edit: Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it

We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, The Bolivian Salt Lake (http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/11/fantastic-landscapes-of-bolivian-salt_27.html), or The Richat Structure (http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/09/richat-structure-eye-of-earth_12.html)), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html

The other link is mixed up with the URL for the image, so when I clicked it all I got was the image. not the web page.

[BrewTech]

Indeed! Where is this place I will never go?

[Serpo]

fixed it ,

talking to a friend on the phone and he suggested looking it up..............


Bit of a glimpse into what things may of looked like once



http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA-Mm_XSpI/AAAAAAAAdBk/cCIXLBiGZ-w/s720/35654ytfhg.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22334898@N00/345384080/)http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA7KVdEFVI/AAAAAAAAc-E/yjTNvwvFMM0/s800/345654ygdf.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22334898@N00/345384093/)http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA7ONVozaI/AAAAAAAAc_w/EXxH23JcfGI/s720/35654ytghgfhgf.jpg (http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA7ONVozaI/AAAAAAAAc_w/EXxH23JcfGI/s1600-h/35654ytghgfhgf.jpg)
http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SMA9F4sagXI/AAAAAAAAdBY/3KNisefQdc0/s720/3546546tertgfhhgj.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26505028@N08/2600518983/)

[Glass]

Indeed! Where is this place I will never go?

North east of Somalia. I'm surprised it is not a military naval base or something, like Gibralta