A new volcanic island is born in the South Pacific, near Tonga. Folks on a yacht spotted telltale “pumice rafts” — floating seas of lighter-than-water igneous rock — and then spotted the new island, which appears to be at least a mile across. A separate group of fishermen also spotted the newcomer.
In a trend more maddening with time, CNN.com does not include links to the blog posts it references. (It’s particularly maddening because the story is from AP, and AP is pretty good about including links in their wire stories; CNN likely stripped them out for posting.) So, to save you labor:
Here’s the post from the yacht’s blog with photos of the pumice and the new island. Here’s the post detailing their finding.
A Tongan news story on the yacht siting.
And one on the fishermen’s siting.
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