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Pumice from the South Sandwich Eruption of March 1962 reaches New Zealand

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ON March 14, 1962, H.M.S. Protector encountered an extensive raft of large and small pumice fragments in the neighbourhood of Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands1. It is believed that this pumice was erupted on March 5 from a submarine volcano which forms a shoal, minimum depth 15 fathoms, 55.9° S, 28.1° W., lying some 35 miles north-west of Zavodovski Island. Towards the end of 1963, fragments of pumice up to 3 ft. in diameter were noticed washed up on the south-west coast of Tasmania and these have been tentatively correlated with the South Sandwich occurrence2.

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COOMBS, D., LANDIS, C. Pumice from the South Sandwich Eruption of March 1962 reaches New Zealand. Nature 209, 289–290 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209289b0

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