SUBMARINE VOLCANO
DISCOVERY OFF N.Z. COAST REPORT BY SURVEY SHIP (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 14. ” A submarine volcano-like formation has been found by the survey vessel H.M.N.Z.S. Lachlan about 20 miles off the coast of Porengahau, in- centra) Hawke’s Bay. Captain C. C. Lowry, commander of the Lachlan, which is now at Napier, said that the middle of the volcano was about 4500 feet deep. The formation was about 20 miles across, by about. 10 miles long. On one side of the formation, there was a definite sloping wall, and the depth of sea round the crater indicated a volcanic formation, said Captain Lowry. Commenting on the Lachlan’s discovery, Mr M. Te Punga, lecturer in geology at Victoria University College, said in Wellington: “The discovery is of particular importance to the scientific world. Submarine volcanoes are rarities, and consequently very little understood.”
The formation was comparable in girth with Mount Ruapehu, said Mr Te Punga. The Pacific’s “girdle of fire” comprised volcanoes both on the land and under the sea. The volcano now found apparently rose from the floor of the Kermadec deep.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27274, 15 February 1954, Page 8
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