It turns out that Mount Erebus spews a fortune in gold across Antarctica — $2.1 million worth of it per year, according to reports. You’d struggle to pan it out of the Antarctic snow, though.

the H.M.S. Erebus, which had in turn been named after the Greek god of primeval darkness. (Ross’s other ship, the H.M.S. Terror, gave its name to a smaller, extinct volcano that stands next to ...