Recently emerged a new island in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano.
New island lies 45 kilometers from the capital Nuku'alofa Tonga. The length of the island 1.8 km and 1.2 km displayed. Scientists say these dimensions are not fixed and are subject to change, add to it, any island, has divided into small parts to sink into the ocean. The island is made up of volcanic rocks contain black in some places on the crystals.
Began an eruption Hong Tung-Hong Ha'apai in the month of December / December 2014, it was noted then smoke rising from the surface of the water column, and after several weeks the limits of the new island began to clear as they appear in satellite images taken by satellites.
Says the owner of a local hotel, Janpiero Orbacno, who visited the island with his new friends, the island rocks solidified, but it is still hot, and they, when they came to the highest point where they discovered a green lake pungent smell of sulfur.
It should be noted that in the month of November 2013, formed by the eruption of an underwater volcano, an island in the territorial waters of Japan merged later on the island of Nishino.
