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Danakil

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[dan-uh-kil, -keel, duh-nah-keel] / ˈdæn ə kɪl, -ˌkil, dəˈnɑ kil /

noun

  • Danakils,
    plural
  • Danakil
    plural
  1. Afar.


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We had to give up on our GPS instruments in Danakil.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023

The bone-dry Danakil only gets seven inches of rain a year, but it all seemed to have fallen that night, resulting in a frantic scurry for the huts.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017

Foreigners who venture out into the area usually include researchers, aid workers and about 500 adventure tourists each year visiting geographical wonders such as the Danakil Depression, with ancient salt mines and volcanoes.

From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2012

Foreigners who venture out into the area usually include researchers, aid workers and adventure tourists visiting geographical wonders like the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest places on earth with ancient salt mines and volcanoes.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2012

Somaliland and the Danakil lowlands have a hot, dry climate producing semi-desert conditions; the country in the lower basin of the Sobat is hot, swampy and malarious.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Then guards were set about the camp and the little command lay down to sleep within a spear's throw of thousands of Ali Gorah's wild Danakils.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

This letter he sent by his Abyssinian headman to Mantoock, the nearest Abyssinian Ras and a sort of overlord of the Danakils, with request for his advice and aid.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

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