Kermadec Islands Kermadec Islands - Raoul Island, MacAuley Island, Monowai Seamount, Green Lake, Raoul Island, MacAuley Island, Monowai Seamount, Green Lake, New Zealand, Curtis Island, New Zealand, Kermadec Trench New Zealand, Curtis Island, New Zealand, Kermadec Trench (Paperback)


Chapters: Raoul Island, Macauley Island, Monowai Seamount, Green Lake, New Zealand, Curtis Island, New Zealand, Kermadec Trench, Cheeseman Island, Denham Bay, L'esperance Rock, Nugent Island. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Raoul Island - Stone implements of the Polynesian type have been found on Raoul Island, but the island is now uninhabited. The permanently manned Raoul Island Station has been maintained since 1937. It includes a government meteorological and radio station and hostel for Department of Conservation (DOC) officers and volunteers. The station stands on the northern terraces of the island, about 50 m in elevation above the cliffs of Fleetwood Bluff. Raoul Island Station represents the northernmost outpost of New Zealand. Two Holocene calderas are found at Raoul. The older caldera cuts the center of Raoul Island is about 2.5 x 3.5 km wide. Denham caldera, formed during a major dacitic explosive eruption about 2200 years ago, truncated the western side of the island and is 6.5 x 4 km wide. Its long axis is parallel to the tectonic fabric of the Havre Trough that lies west of the volcanic arc. Historical eruptions at Raoul during the 19th and 20th centuries have sometimes occurred simultaneously from both calderas, and have consisted of small-to-moderate phreatic eruptions, some of which formed ephemeral islands in Denham caldera. A 240 m high unnamed submarine cone, one of several located along a fissure on the lower NNE flank of Raoul volcano, has also erupted during historical time, and satellitic vents at Raoul are concentrated along two parallel NNE-trending lineaments. The Denham caldera was named for the nearby Denham Bay, itself named by Capt M H Denham in HMS Herald came to complete a (chart) survey of the island July 2 1...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=858158

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Chapters: Raoul Island, Macauley Island, Monowai Seamount, Green Lake, New Zealand, Curtis Island, New Zealand, Kermadec Trench, Cheeseman Island, Denham Bay, L'esperance Rock, Nugent Island. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Raoul Island - Stone implements of the Polynesian type have been found on Raoul Island, but the island is now uninhabited. The permanently manned Raoul Island Station has been maintained since 1937. It includes a government meteorological and radio station and hostel for Department of Conservation (DOC) officers and volunteers. The station stands on the northern terraces of the island, about 50 m in elevation above the cliffs of Fleetwood Bluff. Raoul Island Station represents the northernmost outpost of New Zealand. Two Holocene calderas are found at Raoul. The older caldera cuts the center of Raoul Island is about 2.5 x 3.5 km wide. Denham caldera, formed during a major dacitic explosive eruption about 2200 years ago, truncated the western side of the island and is 6.5 x 4 km wide. Its long axis is parallel to the tectonic fabric of the Havre Trough that lies west of the volcanic arc. Historical eruptions at Raoul during the 19th and 20th centuries have sometimes occurred simultaneously from both calderas, and have consisted of small-to-moderate phreatic eruptions, some of which formed ephemeral islands in Denham caldera. A 240 m high unnamed submarine cone, one of several located along a fissure on the lower NNE flank of Raoul volcano, has also erupted during historical time, and satellitic vents at Raoul are concentrated along two parallel NNE-trending lineaments. The Denham caldera was named for the nearby Denham Bay, itself named by Capt M H Denham in HMS Herald came to complete a (chart) survey of the island July 2 1...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=858158

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September 2010

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978-1-157-03730-9

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