Satellite Observations of New Volcanic Island in Tonga
Abstract
A rising volcanic plume from an unknown source was observed on 9-11 August 2006 in the Vava'u Island group in the northernmost islands of Tonga [Matangi News Online, 2006]. On 12 August, the crew on board the yacht Maiken, sailing west from Vava'u to Fiji, encountered ``a vast, many miles wide, belt of densely packed pumice'' floating on the water (F. Fransson personal communication, 2006). Later, the crew sailed south and discovered that the source of the pumice was a newly erupting submarine volcano near Home Reef (18.991°S, 174.767°W) (Figure 1a).
- Publication:
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EOS Transactions
- Pub Date:
- January 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1029/2007EO040002
- Bibcode:
- 2007EOSTr..88...37V
- Keywords:
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- Volcanology: Remote sensing of volcanoes;
- Volcanology: Volcano monitoring (7280);
- Volcanology: Instruments and techniques