Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago. Successive eruptions have allowed the island to reach an area of 12.2 hectares ...

An island country offering unspoilt white sandy beaches encompassed by some of the most pristine coral reefs left on the ...

Since 2022, the underwater volcano of Home Reef has repeatedly emerged, adding hectares of land to the Tonga archipelago. Successive eruptions have allowed the island to reach an area of ...

Before this point, the island at Home Reef had reached 12.2 hectares (30.1 acres), which is roughly 2,000 times smaller than Tonga’s main island, Tongatapu; and around 6,500 times smaller than ...

I had no clue what I was doing. As an adventurous 30-year-old solo traveller, I was not a cruise fanatic, not even a fan.

Satellite image of Home Reef captured by Landsat 9 on November 22, 2024. A fiery force beneath the ocean is reshaping Tonga’s Home Reef, growing an island through eruptions over the past few years.

Since October 2019, Heinrich and I have called One Tree Island, 100 kilometres off the coast of central Queensland, our home. Together we are caretakers of the island, a remote research station on the ...

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