THE "PACIFIC RING OF FIRE" includes the Tonga-Kermadec Island arc, which lies along the Pacific/Indian-Australian plate boundary to the north-east of the North Island. The Kermadec Islands - Raoul, Macaulay, Curtis, and L’Esperance Rock - are part of a classic subduction zone, where the Pacific plate is being forced down into the mantle underneath the more continental Indian-Australian plate. New Zealand scientists on Raoul Island in 1964 witnessed the island in one of its more volatile moods before they were evacuated. Photo: Don Merton
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Forest and Bird, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 February 1991, Page 28
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82THE "PACIFIC RING OF FIRE" includes the Tonga-Kermadec Island arc, which lies along the Pacific/Indian-Australian plate boundary to the north-east of the North Island. The Kermadec Islands - Raoul, Macaulay, Curtis, and L’Esperance Rock - are part of a classic subduction zone, where the Pacific plate is being forced down into the mantle underneath the more continental Indian-Australian plate. New Zealand scientists on Raoul Island in 1964 witnessed the island in one of its more volatile moods before they were evacuated. Photo: Don Merton Forest and Bird, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 February 1991, Page 28
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