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White Island is New Zealand's
most active volcano, located in the Bay of Plenty, 48 km north
of Whakatane. Sulfur mining was attempted but was abandoned in
1914 after a lahar killed all 10 workers. The island is roughly
circular, about two km in diameter, and rises to a height of
321 m above sea level. However this is only the peak of a much
larger submarine mountain, which rises up to 1600 m above the
nearby seafloor.
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