How to get to Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai - The newest island on earth
A few years back, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was created from a volcanic explosion:
It has since solidified, and life is beginning to pop up all around the island.
Multiple scientists and some individuals have managed to venture out there.
My question is, how would one even begin to get there? It's already quite a trek just to get out to Tonga itself, let alone venturing out 30 or so km into the sea to a desolate island.
Best Answer
You could look into doing the SEA Semester Program. While there is no guarantee that Hunga Tonga would be included, according to NASA, one of their ships, the SSV Robert C. Seamans, was among the ships to visit the island in October, 2018.
The SSV Robert C. Seamans of SEA Semester program at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in October, 2018. Credit: Dan Slayback
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Where is the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha apai?
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the SW Pacific is 65 km NW of the island of Tongatapu, where the capital of the Kingdom of Tonga, Nuku'alofa, is located. It lies 2,000 km N of New Zealand and over 3,000 km NE of Australia. Several submarine volcanoes along the Tofua arc are shown in red triangles.Does Tonga have a new island?
Undersea Eruption Near Tonga For more than a decade, an undersea volcano has been erupting in the South Pacific near Tonga. The eruptions created a new island near Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai; then a potent blast wiped out the island in early 2022.Where is the newest island of Lateiki?
The location of the new Lateiki Island (Metis Shoal), shown here on 30 October 2019 in red, was a few hundred meters to the NW of the old position recorded on 5 September 2019 (in white).Tonga: vi spiego l’eruzione del vulcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai nella cintura di fuoco
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