"The world’s newest island has risen from the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/world-newest-island-forms-japanese-025218781.html
How often does this happen?
From the link in the OP:
The island sits about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of mainland Japan and a kilometer from Iwo Jima, the island that saw some of the fiercest battles of World War II in the Pacific.
US Marines fought tens of thousands of Japanese garrisoned there in a battle that killed more than 7,000 Americans and 22,000 Japanese troops.
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I suppose there are people who never learned about Iwo Jima in World War II, but those same people likely also don't know about Ira Hayes, a Native American who was one of the Marines who helped raise the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2u9yBHfFI
A new island appeared where I live about 5 years ago.
It seemed to be the result of a shipping lane closing down , and resulting lack of dredging causing a change in the currents
Beware! Contains gratuitous swearing - NSFW: -
https://youtu.be/42_oWaWsiYs?si=j9vLI0Vo1DqLsvgE
This apparently is not as rare as I thought it was
https://apnews.com/article/japan-iwo-jima-volcano-eruption-new-island-94916ed3b033b6626610da16f9942452
In 2013, an eruption at Nishinoshima in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo led to the formation of a new island, which kept growing during a decadelong eruption of the volcano.
Also in 2013, a small island surfaced from the seabed after a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan. In 2015, a new island was formed as a result of a monthlong eruption of a submarine volcano off the coast of Tonga.
This makes it 4 in the last 10 years. meh
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
And these are of them.
(Macbeth)
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