A panoramic view of Lochnagar Mine Crater, La Boiselle, Somme battlefields, France.

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Lochnagar Mine {or Lochnagar Crater) is the largest man-made crater created in the First World War on the Western Front. The mine was detonated two minutes before the Zero Hour at the launch of the British offensive against the German lines on the morning of the 1st July 1916.

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Size: 5906px × 1800px
Location: Ovilliers-la-Boiselle, Somme, France.
Photo credit: © Alun Jenkins / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1914-18, 1914-1918, battle, battlefield, boiselle, crater, front, great, la, lochnagar, ovilliers-la-boiselle, panorama, panoramic, somme, view, war, western, world