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The new island seen on January 15, 2012 (NASA Earth Obbservatory)
Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
It appears from the latest NASA satellite images that the eruption that has formed the new island has ended, leaving an impressive new elongated island about 1000 m long and 500 m wide just 500 m NNW of Rugged Island in the Zubair archipelago. ... [more]
The new island in the Red Sea on 7 Jan 2012 (NASA Earth Observatory)
Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012
New images were released from NASA, showing the rapid growth of a new island in the Zubair archipelago in the Red Sea. ... [more]

Volcanoes of Red Sea (4 volcanoes)

Jebel al-Tair | Jebel Zubair | Zukur | Hanish
Jebel al-Tair
(stratovolcano)
Jebel al-Tair ("bird mountain") volcano is the northernmost active volcano rising above sea level on the rift axis of the south-central part of the Red Sea.
Its western spelling varies from Jebel at Tair to Jebel al Tair, Djebel Teyr, Jabal al Tayr,, Jibbel Tir and other v... [more]

Jebel Zubair
(shield volcano)
Jebel Zubair volcano is a shield volcano forming the island of the same name in the Red Sea. Measuring 5 km in length, it is the largest of a group of 10 small volcanic islands and shoals known as the Zubair archipelago, which includes the Zubair, Centre Peak, Saba, and Haycock i... [more]

Zukur
(shield volcano)
Zukur (Zugar) volcano forms the northernmost large island of the Zukur-Hanish island group in the southern Red Sea between Eritrea and Yemen.
It consists of young basaltic pahoehoe lava flows and cinder cones, but there are no known historic eruptions.
Zukur and the o... [more]

Hanish
(shield volcano)
Hanish volcano forms a group of islands in the Red Sea between Eritrea and Yemen. These include the 20 km long Great Hanish, Little Hanish, and many other small islands and submarine shoals.
The volcano contains a number of volcanic vents aligned NE-SW and consists of lava... [more]
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