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Mystery behind red-stripped Smoking Hills which have been burning for centuries
FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inboxLocated on the east coast of Cape Bathurst in Canada, the Smoking Hills still remains as a strange natural phenomenon.The multi-coloured fiery wonder recorded its first sighing in the early 1800s by an Irish explorer named Captain Robert McClure.He trawled the Arctic for lost expedition leader Sr John Franklin who disappeared while charting Canada's Northwest Passage.When he witnessed the smoke, the captain ordered his crew to investigate in case it was a signal from the lost explorer.However, when he reached the hills, which can only be accessed by helicopter or boat, there was no sign of life.The explorers believed volcanic activity was
