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en.wikipedia.orgRaoul Island, the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, 900 km south south-west of 'Ata Island of Tonga and 1,100 km north north-east of New Zealand's North Island, has been the source of vigorous volcanic activity during the past several thousand years that was dominated by dacitic explosive eruptions. The area of the anvil-shaped island, including fringing islets and rocks mainly in the northeast, but also a few smaller ones in the southeast, is 29.38 km2. The highest elevatio
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Dec 10, 2021 · Raoul Island volcano is the northernmost, largest and best known of the Kermandec islands NE of New Zealand. The anvil shaped 10 x 6 km wide island is the top of a large stratovolcano breaching the sea surface. At its submarine base, the volcano measures 35 x 20 km. The volcano has 2 overlapping caldera containing 3 lakes (Blue, Green, and Tui).
The Kermadec Islands are the visible surface of a chain of about 80 volcanoes, stretching for 2,600 km between Tonga and New Zealand. Raoul Island is the biggest of the group, which begins at the southernmost L’Esperance. While the other islands and islets are smaller, several of them harbour important bird colonies.
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Aerial view of Raoul Island (1st of 2) This aerial view of Raoul Island was taken in March 1992, looking south over the Raoul caldera. The darker area of water is Blue Lake, and the pale green lake is Green Lake, site of an active vent that last erupted in 2006. Denham Bay (upper right) marks the edge of a collapse caldera.
The Kermadecs are part of a chain of huge undersea volcanoes – the islands are the only part above water. Some of these volcanoes are still active. The climate is mild and subtropical.
The Kermadec archipelago contains the northernmost land and territorial seas in New Zealand. Raoul Island (Rangitahua) is by far the largest (2900 ha) of the 15 islands, which are spread as four clusters in a line over 250 km of the Pacific Ocean (Latitude 29º - 32º S and Longitude 177º - 179º W), about 1100 km north-east of the Northland coast.
When the New Zealand government established a weather and radio station on the island in 1939 it made Raoul the official name, probably to avoid confusion with a number of Sunday islands in Australia. Although Raoul is the only island in the Kermadec group large enough to support settlement, it lacks a safe harbour, and landings from small ...
The Kermadec archipelago contains the northernmost land and territorial seas in New Zealand. Raoul Island (Rangitahua) is by far the largest (2900 ha) of the 15 islands, which are spread as four clusters in a line over 250 km of the Pacific Ocean (Latitude 29º - 32º S and Longitude 177º - 179º W), about 1100 km north-east of the Northland ...
Northernmost and largest of New Zealand’s subtropical Kermadec group, Raoul Island lies 1000 kilometres north-east of New Zealand, midway between Auckland and Tonga. A rocky coastline with sea cliffs up to 250 metres high surrounds most of the island, but within this unwelcoming exterior lie the lush pohutukawa and nikau palm forests of a ...
Land access. The Kermadec Islands are nature reserves protected under the 1977 Reserves Act. The Act requires all visitors landing on the island to obtain and comply with an entry permit. Entry permits are only issued for Raoul island, and stipulate what places visitors can access and when. Raoul Island is an active volcanic site.
Sentinel, a hingebeak shrimp stands at attention on a Turbinaria coral at North Chanter Island in the Herald Islets—a small cluster of islands off the eastern shore of the main island of Raoul. The Kermadec Islands are distributed over two degrees of longitude and harbour tropical species such as these, more commonly seen on the Great Barrier ...
Raoul Island, the largest of the Kermadec Islands, is an active volcano that last erupted in 2006. A broad central crater (called the Raoul caldera) contains two lakes, both the sites of previous eruptions. Are the Kermadecs inhabited? The Kermadec Island chain, 750 to 1,000 km north-north-east of New Zealand, are of volcanic origin. They are ...
The Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Canterbury and crew collected six Department of Conservation (DOC) rangers from Rangitāhua/Raoul Island and staff from the NZ Met Service
When the New Zealand government established a weather and radio station on the island in 1939 it made Raoul the official name, probably to avoid confusion with a number of Sunday islands in Australia. Although Raoul is the only island in the Kermadec group large enough to support settlement, it lacks a safe harbour, and landings from small ...
The Kermadec archipelago contains the northernmost land and territorial seas in New Zealand. Raoul Island (Rangitahua) is by far the largest (2900 ha) of the 15 islands, which are spread as four clusters in a line over 250 km of the Pacific Ocean (Latitude 29º - 32º S and Longitude 177º - 179º W), about 1100 km north-east of the Northland ...
Northernmost and largest of New Zealand’s subtropical Kermadec group, Raoul Island lies 1000 kilometres north-east of New Zealand, midway between Auckland and Tonga. A rocky coastline with sea cliffs up to 250 metres high surrounds most of the island, but within this unwelcoming exterior lie the lush pohutukawa and nikau palm forests of a ...
Land access. The Kermadec Islands are nature reserves protected under the 1977 Reserves Act. The Act requires all visitors landing on the island to obtain and comply with an entry permit. Entry permits are only issued for Raoul island, and stipulate what places visitors can access and when. Raoul Island is an active volcanic site.
Oct 18, 2021 · The New Zealand Defence Force works with the Department of Conservation, which manages Raoul Island, and with GNS Science and MetService to facilitate essential work, including maintenance of tsunami gauges and automatic weather stations on Raoul Island, which lies 1000km northeast of Cape Reinga.
Sentinel, a hingebeak shrimp stands at attention on a Turbinaria coral at North Chanter Island in the Herald Islets—a small cluster of islands off the eastern shore of the main island of Raoul. The Kermadec Islands are distributed over two degrees of longitude and harbour tropical species such as these, more commonly seen on the Great Barrier ...
New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No. 179. Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand, pp 95. Duffy, C., Baker, C.S., Constantine, R. 2015. ‘Observation and identification of marine mammals during two recent expeditions to the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand’. Bulletin of the Auckland Museum 20: 501-510 (Yahoo)
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