Turkmenistan’s ‘Gateway to Hell’

  • January 10, 2022
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Turkmenistan’s ‘Gateway to Hell’

Subject – IR

Context – Turkmenistan President has ordered experts to find a way to extinguish a fire in a huge natural gas crater, the Darvaza gas crater also known as the ‘Gateway to Hell’

Concept –

  • Turkmenistan President has ordered experts to find a way to extinguish a fire in a huge natural gas crater, the Darvaza gas crater also known as the ‘Gateway to Hell’.
  • Mystery surrounds the Darvaza crater’s creation in the Karakum Desert.
  • Many believe it formed when a Soviet drilling operation went wrong in 1971.
  • According to local Turkmen geologists, the huge crater formed in the 1960s but was only lit in the 1980s.
  • The crater is one of Turkmenistan’s most popular tourist attractions.
  • In 2018, the president officially renamed it the Shining of Karakum.

IR Turkmenistan’s ‘Gateway to Hell’