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10,000-square-mile volcanic rock cluster found floating near New Zealand

An area of floating pumice 250 nautical miles in length and 30 nautical miles wide in the South Pacific ocean. A huge cluster of floating volcanic rocks covering almost 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 square miles) has been found drifting in the Pacific. (AFP Photo/New Zealand Defence Force)

A huge cluster of floating volcanic rocks covering almost 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 square miles) has been found drifting in the Pacific, the New Zealand navy said Friday. The strange phenomenon, which witnesses said resembled a polar ice shelf, was made up of lightweight pumice expelled from an underwater volcano,…

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