There are two active volcanoes in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Mauna Loa and Kilauea, but Kilauea is the real "must-see." A 4,000-foot-tall mountain, Kilauea has been active since Jan. 3, 1983.

Author Lucy Diamond on the new-found inspiration behind her latest novel, The Island Getaway . . . When people ask how I go about starting a new novel, my stock response has been that I generally ...

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Just under 1000 people call Flinders Island home, and with fewer than half of them working a council-commissioned study says the community has gone beyond a tipping point.

Brimming with emotion, drama and home truths, The Island Getaway sees Diamond at her storytelling best… warm, wise, witty and eternally optimistic. (Quercus, hardback, £16.99) Continue Reading ...

A 'ghost' island that suddenly appeared in the Caspian Sea in early 2023 is playing a centuries-long game of peekaboo with scientists, and it's about to vanish once again – if it hasn't already ...

From these tiny fragments we can glean tidbits of information about our planet's interior. A diamond unearthed in a diamond mine in Botswana is just such a stone. It's riddled with flaws containing ...

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A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Flinders Island Council has secured $2.68 million in federal funding to help deliver stage one of a two-stage urgent upgrade to the island's only airport. Passionate about all things happening in ...

Flinders Council GM Warren Groves with Mayor Rachel Summers and Airport Operations Officer Richard Harley at the Flinders Island Airport. Image / Supplied Flinders Island Council has received a ...