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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn

Australian volcano near Antarctica captured on satellite spewing lava

A composite of visible and infrared satellite images shows lava spilling down the side of Big Ben, a 20km-wide volcano, on Heard Island
A composite of visible and infrared satellite images shows lava spilling down the side of Big Ben, a 20km-wide volcano, on Heard Island near Antarctica. Photograph: Copernicus/Sentinel Hub/Pierre Markuse

One of Australia’s two active volcanoes on an island near Antarctica – known as Big Ben – has been spotted by satellite spewing lava.

The lava flow on the uninhabited Heard Island, about 4,100 kilometres south-west of Perth and 1,500km north of Antarctica, is part of an ongoing eruption that was first noted more than a decade ago.

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