Whale Island

Everyone knows what a volcano looks like – isn’t it a steep-sided cone with wisps of ash coming from the top, just like Rangitoto, White Island,...

In February 2010, geologists from GNS Science and Macquarie University in Sydney spent 6 days on the inhospitable Solander Island, 40km south of the Fiordland coast....

An international team of scientists may have uncovered the biggest volcano on Earth, a colossal extinct structure lying under the north-western Pacific Ocean, at the boundary...