Abstract
Tonga Islands eruptions and pumice rafts, South Pacific Ocean. Some fumarolic activity continued to take place during August on Late Iki, a new island formed over the site of the frequently active submarine volcano Metis Shoal. Geologists do not expect the island to persist for more than a few months.Reports from Rotuma Island (12.5°S, 177.08°E, about 1150 km northwest of Late Iki) state that a thick blanket of pumice washed up on the south side of the island in mid‐August. Fish that jumped out of the sea and landed on the pumice were unable to return to the water. No other reports of pumice have been received by the Fiji Mineral Resources Department in August.
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