When he picked himself up he saw that the inside of the domed tent was like the canopy of the night sky and just as dark.

The Jaradan camp was laid out in clusters of domed tents half buried in the sand.

"This is the essence of Seattle," said Janet Wainwright, a longtime co-op member, as she walked among domed tents and stacks of indeterminately-aged freeze-dried apple cobbler.

Help centers apply treatments like drumming ceremonies and sweat lodges, the traditional cleansing saunas set up in domed tents where people can confess and chant.

It can also be a domed tent for life on the surface of Luna, Mercury or Venus.

He clamped his lips more tightly round the mouthpiece and squirmed on to where the bulk of the plane raised the tarpaulin into a domed tent.

"A circular domed tent of skins stretched over a lattice framework," she read, pronouncing each word slowly without a Kentucky accent.

The domed tents, camacks, were made of joined hides over iron poles.

It has rows of domed red and yellow tents with thermostat-controlled heat, two Russian helicopters and a runway big enough to accommodate 20-ton planes coming from northern Canada, Siberia and Norway.

Similar domed tents are also used by the Bushmen and Nama people and other indigenous peoples in Southern Africa.