In the South Pacific, south of Late Island along the Tofua volcanic arc in Tonga, a new volcanic island Home Reef is being re-born. The island is thought to have emerged after a volcanic eruption in mid-August that has also spewed large amounts of floating pumice into Tongan waters and sweeping across to Fiji about 350 km to the west of where the new island has formed. In 2004, a similar eruption created an ephemeral island about 0.5 by 1.5 km in size; it was no longer visible in an ASTER image acquired in November 2005. The following simulated natural color image shows the vegetation-covered stratovolcanic island of Late in the upper right. Home Reef is found in the lower left. The two bluish plumes are hot seawater that is laden with volcanic ash and chemicals; the larger one can be traced for more than 14 km to the east. The image was acquired on October 10, 2006, and covers an area of 24.3 by 30.2 km.
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