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Havre volcanic edifice

POOF  Most of the debris from the 2012 eruption of Havre (shown), a deep-sea volcano near New Zealand, ended up in a pumice raft that floated across the South Pacific.

Univ. of Tasmania in Australia, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

By Helen Thompson

- More than 2 years ago

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On July 31, 2012, Maggie de Grauw looked out the window of her flight back to New Zealand after a holiday in Samoa and glimpsed a mysterious mass floating below.