Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Indeed, we have another active lava lake


Interesting article about the new volcanic lava lake discovered in the South Sandwich Islands, which are in the middle of the remote -- seriously remote -- South Atlantic.

Rare lava lake found on top of sub-Antarctic volcano

This article includes a map, which is useful in geo-locating these islands.

Now, an issue I have with this article is that they state that Kilauea in Hawaii is one of Earth's eight volcanoes hosting a lava lake.  They are listed in it. But as of right now, Kilauea doesn't have one, because of last year's dramatic, lava-lake draining and neighborhood inundating rift eruption.  So as of NOW, there's only seven.  (It seems to me that one of the Andes volcanoes had a lava lake for awhile, but I guess that was temporary.  Looked that up;  Villarica had one for about six years, 1995-2001 and hosts one off-and-on.  But not right now.)


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