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Apr 24, 2023 · April 24 (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kermadec Islands region near New Zealand on Monday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6 ...
Rangitāhua (Kermadec Islands) is located halfway between mainland Aotearoa and Tonga and contains marine and terrestrial biodiversity found nowhere else in the world, including internationally significant terrestrial nature reserves and Aotearoa’s largest marine reserve. It has been identified as one of only four pristine marine ecosystems ...
Jan 1, 2014 · Raoul Island is the largest at 2943ha and the only island in the group covered in forest, with rugged hillsides clad in endemic Kermadec pohutukawa and nikau. At the centre of the anvil-shaped island is a huge caldera with three lakes – evidence of the island’s explosive nature. The most recent eruptions occurred in 1814, 1870, 1964 and 2006.
Curtis Island is an island in the southwest Pacific. It is a volcanic island which, together with neighbouring Cheeseman Island, belongs to the Kermadec Islands, an outlying island group of New Zealand. It is a volcanic island with a fumarolically active crater, while vegetated slopes are nested by seabirds.
The Kermadec Trench is a linear ocean trench in the south Pacific Ocean. It stretches about 1,000 km (620 mi) from the Louisville Seamount Chain in the north (26°S) to the Hikurangi Plateau in the south (37°S), north-east of New Zealand 's North Island. [1] Together with the Tonga Trench to the north, it forms the 2,000 km (1,200 mi)-long ...
Jun 14, 2023 · The sanctuary covers a 620,000 square kilometre area in New Zealand's exclusive economic zone around the Kermadec Islands, northeast of the North Island. The latest government proposal included renaming the area to Ngā Whatu-a-Māui Ocean Sanctuary, and suggested a review into the sanctuary be conducted every 20 years.
The Kermadec Islands are a group of small volcanic islands, 800–1,000 kilometres north-east of the North Island. The largest, Raoul Island, is 29 square kilometres in area. The other islands are small and collectively cover less than 4 square kilometres. The islands are strategically important, as they define the northern extent of New ...
