This Japanese Island Has Grown 11 Times Bigger In Just 15 Months Thanks To Volcanic Eruptions

Edit Huffington Post 03 Mar 2015
A small volcanic island off the coast of Japan is having a major growth spurt ... The rapid growth began in November of 2013, when a new island named Niijima emerged near Nishinoshima as a result of an undersea volcanic eruption. Niijima eventually merged with Nishinoshima, and the newly fused Nishinoshima -- which some people thought looked like Snoopy -- has been expanding rapidly ever since ... Grow on, baby island. We believe in you! ....

3 Izu Islands create English brochure

Edit The Japan News 17 Feb 2015
The Yomiuri Shimbun Three tourist associations of Niijima, Shikinejima and Kozushima islands, which all belong to the Izu Islands, have jointly completed an English sightseeing brochure. The brochure is based on “SPICE Three Islands,” a jointly issued Japanese brochure. The English version is aimed at attracting tourists from abroad to the islands ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games ... Click to play ... + -. Generating speech....

As lava nears homes in Hawaii, residents brace for evacuation order

Edit The Los Angeles Times 06 Sep 2014
Cassandra Pensa met her husband, Clinton Barricklow, in Northern California and decided to go to Hawaii eight years ago to fulfill their dream of living off the land ... But a volcano can be a dangerous neighbor. Related story ... ( Maya Srikrishnan ) ... 8 ... Add a comment. 0 ... Is Niijima here to stay? New image of the newest island on Earth Deborah Netburn ... Its name is Niijima, and you can see one of its newest baby pictures, courtesy of NASA, above ... ....

The kamikaze pilots who cried out 'Mom!'

Edit Stars and Stripes 24 Aug 2014
KYOTO, Japan — Sen Genshitsu, 91, can look back on serving as the 15th grand master of a tea ceremony school known as Urasenke, which has roots connecting it directly to Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), a chanoyu master during the Sengoku period ... "I see ... -- ... He never returned ... He studied at Doshisha University because Yae Niijima, the wife of university founder Jo Niijima, learned the tea ceremony under the 13th-generation Urasenke iemoto....

The Kamikaze pilots who cried out ‘Mom!’

Edit The Japan News 20 Aug 2014
The Yomiuri Shimbun KYOTO—Sen Genshitsu, 91, can look back on serving as the 15th grand master of a tea ceremony school known as Urasenke, which has roots connecting it directly to Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), a chanoyu master during the Sengoku period ... Genshitsu ... “I see ... He studied at Doshisha University because Yae Niijima, the wife of university founder Jo Niijima, learned the tea ceremony under the 13th-generation Urasenke iemoto ... ....

Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity For Girls Techno 293 Fleet (ISAF - International Sailing Federation)

Edit noodls 12 Aug 2014
(Source. ISAF - International Sailing Federation). Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity For Girls Techno 293 Fleet ... Lake Jinniu is a place where I expect light wind ... The fleet also features Brigita Viilop (EST), Katya Ida Coelho (IND), Niijima Rina (JPN), Mariana Aguilar Chavez Peon (MEX), Coral Headey (NZL), Si Ying Lim (SIN), Duangkamon Phongern (THA), Derin Gumenc (TUR) and Barbara Moya (VEN) ... ISAF Website....

Surfing in Ghana: where beats meet beach breaks

Edit The Guardian 03 Aug 2014
The village of Busua in south-west Ghana is home to almost every one of the country’s surfers. Will Coldwell takes to the waves with the locals … once he’s finished partying with them. A surfer shreds along a wave at Busua beach Photograph ... Niijima, Japan. While the island of Niijima has a rising surf scene and is popular with surfers from Tokyo, it remains quiet for most of the year and is the perfect place for a laid-back surfing trip....

Niijima Island: Japanese volcanic island swallows another (+VIDEO)

Edit The Examiner 09 Apr 2014
As documented by NASA's Earth Observatory, Niijima island has now joined a nearby island that was formed from a volcano which last erupted 40 years ago, CNN reported on April 7 ... The phenomenon has given rise to a new volcanic island called Niijima ... Today, it seems as though Niijima is going to settle permanently ... The Bonin Islands, where both Niijima ......

Volcanic islands merge in Pacific Ocean

Edit BBC News 08 Apr 2014
Four months later, the new and old islands are one island. The newer portion of the island - which was referred to as Niijima - is now larger than the original Nishino-shima landmass ... Share this page....

NASA Image Shows Volcanic Island Has Annexed Its Neighbor

Edit National Public Radio 08 Apr 2014
There's some new, pristine real estate on the remote Japanese island of Nishino-shima ... The island is now a bit more than a half-mile across. According to NASA. ... The new island, or "niijima" in Japanese, sprouted just 500 meters from Nishino-shima, another volcanic island that had last erupted and expanded in 1973–74 ... Pacific Ocean Japan. ....

New volcanic island eats its older neighbor

Edit Celebrity Café 07 Apr 2014
The new island named Niijima, sprouted just offshore of the larger volcanic island Nishino-shima and kept on growing ... At its highest point, Niijima is almost 200 feet above sea level, which is triple the ......

Baby volcanic island eats its older neighbor

Edit Fox News 07 Apr 2014
By Megan GannonPublished April 07, 2014. Facebook0 Twitter0 Gplus0. A new volcanic island, called Nishino-shima, emerged from the ocean on Nov. 20, 2013.Japanese Coast Guard ... Named Niijima, the newcomer boiled the sea and spewed steam, ash and lava fragments into the air ... But Niijima kept growing ... Now a satellite image taken March 30, 2014, by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8 shows that Niijima has actually overtaken Nishino-shima....

New volcanic island swallows nearby island

Edit Atlanta Journal 07 Apr 2014
The new island, called Niijima, formed as a result of an eruption from a sea-floor volcano last November pushing lava and ocean rocks to the surface, and the island grew three times its size in about a month ... Niijima's volcano is reportedly the most powerful one in the area ... ....
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