A new seamount discovered in the South Pacific.

The Pacific Ocean has since August some more volcanoes !

Under the ECS / Extended Continental Shelf project, scientists from the University of New Hampshire aboard the R / V Kilo Moana project, have discovered a new seamount during a seabed mapping, conducted between 8 and 13 August , the date of the find.

This seamount exceeds  of 1,100 meters the surrounding seabed, extending to a depth of about 5,100 meters.

Conical shape, its basal diameter of 7,000 meters, with an estimated 23 degree maximum slope. Nearby, the 3D bathymetry reveals the presence of several small structures, including two small volcanoes. The CCOM / JHC states that to consider an underwater structureas a seamount, it must reach an elevation of at least 1,000 meters above the ocean floor.

Unnamed until now, it is located in an area in the South Pacific, 300 km. southeast of Jarvis Island, a coral island, which we shall look after ...