Nugent Island

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Nugent Island
View from Raoul Island to Nugent and the larger neighboring islands Meyer Islands and Dayrell Island, Nugent behind the trees on the left
View from Raoul Island to Nugent and the larger neighboring islands Meyer Islands and Dayrell Island , Nugent behind the trees on the left
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Kermadec Islands
Geographical location 29 ° 13 '54 "  S , 177 ° 52' 9"  W Coordinates: 29 ° 13 '54 "  S , 177 ° 52' 9"  W
Location of Nugent Island
length 100 m
width 100 m
Nugent Island to the northeast of the 1887 nautical chart
Nugent Island to the northeast of the 1887 nautical chart

Nugent Island is the northernmost island of the Kermadec Islands , making it the northernmost area in New Zealand . Located northeast of New Zealand, it is roughly circular and about 100 meters in diameter. Nugent Island belongs to the group of islands around Raoul Island .

The island's rock is approximately 600,000 to 1.4 million years old; it consists of raised and tilted pillow lava and was formed during submarine volcanic eruptions .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim J. Worthington, Murray R. Gregory, Vladislav Bondarenko: The Denham Caldera on Raoul Volcano: dacitic volcanism in the Tonga – Kermadec arc. In: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. ISSN  0377-0273 90 (1999), pp. 29-48, here p. 31f.