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Badacsony Rows of grapevines in a vineyard stretch across fertile soil with houses in the middle ground, a flat-topped volcanic hill, and Lake Balaton visible in the background in Badacsony, Hungary.
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Badacsony Badacsony, Balaton Highlands, western Hungary.

Badacsony

butte, Hungary
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Badacsony, basalt-covered residual butte, 1,437 feet (438 metres) in elevation, on the north bank of Lake Balaton in the Balaton Highlands of western Hungary. The butte bears witness to the original level of the basalt layer that formed at the end of the Pliocene Epoch (i.e., about 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago). In shape, Badacsony resembles a low truncated cone. The edge of this butte is continuously eroded, leaving huge standing pillars known as...

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