MARCH SECOND 1995
THE ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY OF THE ISLANDS OF 1984 IN THE HOME REEF AREA, TONGA
Born March 2, 1984
Home Reef is 23 km NNE of Metis Shoal
Submarine activity commenced March 1-2, 1984
A new island was still present March 23, 1984
Reference
Tappin, David, Item 9:4 Home Reef, in Global Volcanism, McClelland, Simkin,
Summers, Nielsen and Stein, editors, American Geohysical Union, Washington,
D.C., p.139
MARCH TWENTY-FOURTH ,1995
THE TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY OF RITTER ISLAND,
now Papua New Guinea
Born Mar. 24, 1700
William Dampier
witnessed the first and perhaps only eruption of
Ritter Island What he wroe was quoted by Cooke
References
- Cooke, R. J. S., Eruptive history of the volcano at Ritter Island
in R. W. Johnson, editor, Cooke-Ravian volume of volcanological papers,
Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea, Memoir 10,1981, pp.116-117
MARCH THIRTIETH, 1995
THE EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY OF THE UKINREK MAARS
Born March 30, 1977
The name, in Yupik Eskimo, means "two holes in the ground"
Activity was phreatic.
West Maar: 300 m diameter, 70 m deep
East Maar: 105-170 m 35 m deep
Activity ceased Apr. 9, 1977
Reference
- Self, S., Keinle, J., and Huot,J.P. Ukinrek Maars, Alaska II,
Deposits and formation of the 1977 craters, J. Volc. Geotherm. Res.
7, 1980 p.39-65, 1980
Last revision Aug. 9, 1995