Skip to content
Tormod Sandtorv · CC BY-SA 2.0
Event wonder Middle East

Darvaza Gas Crater

1971 CE

Burning natural gas crater in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert, alight continuously since…

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Burning natural gas field in Turkmenistan

Darvaza gas crater on Wikipedia.

Read the article Open on Wikipedia ↗

The full record

This moment was taken from a record with a span of its own.

Landmark · Middle East

Darvaza Gas Crater

1971 CE – still standing

Burning natural gas crater in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert, alight continuously since 1971

Standing in 1971 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Mexico Polity · Americas Founded 1810 CE · attested to 2026 CE Argentina Polity · Americas Founded 1816 CE · attested to 2026 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency Conflict · South Asia 1967 CE – 2026 CE Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

The nearest dated moments on either side.

1969 CE Football War 1969 CE Sino-Soviet Border Conflict 1970 CE Black September (Jordanian Civil War) 1971 CE Bangladeshi War of Independence 1971 CE Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1973 CE Yom Kippur War
Image credits1 picture from Wikimedia Commons