Antarctica expedition surveys volcanic islands

A team of scientists travelling around Antarctica has carried out a helicopter survey of the Balleny Islands, south of New Zealand.

These are volcanic, unwelcoming islands with no natural harbours or safe places to land.

Al Jazeera’s Tarek Bazley reports from the Balleny Islands, off Antarctica.

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A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater.

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