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There's an island in the middle of the ocean that is part of an ancient sunken content and is home to an animal found nowhere else in the world.
Ball's Pyramid is a giant natural stone pyramid that rises 1,844 feet from sea level. Sitting 12 miles off the southeast of Lord Howe Island in the Pacific, it was formed an estimated 6.4 million years ago as a result of a shield volcano eruption.
The monolithic natural pyramid was named after Henry Lidgbird Ball, a Royal Navy Lieutenant who discovered the island pyramid in 1788.
While the pyramid was made from a shield volcano now under the Pacific, it is actually part of the lost sunken continent of Zealandia. This continent is a rather large mass of continental crust that is believed to have separated from Australia roughly 60 million years ago and eventually sunk below sea level.
After it's discovery, Ball was unable to go ashore, and no man made the journey until Henry Wilkinson, a geologist at the New South Wales Department of Mines in 1882. Even after this first journey on the island, it would take almost another 100 years before man would summit the peak of the pyramid.
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14 авг 2024
