Pieces of a giant pumice 'island' once twice the size of Manhattan have started washing ashore in Australia. They originated in an underwater volcano that erupted near Tonga, nearly 2,000 miles away.

If you are heading on a road trip this summer, you might drive past several ancient sentinels of Australia's volcanic past. Many of them, like the Glass House Mountains, are hard to miss. These ...

Buried deep within volcanic rock of Western Australia, researchers have stumbled across a mineral that is unlike any other crystal on Earth. The purple mineral is ‘completely unique in its ...

A huge raft of volcanic rock has been spotted in the Pacific Ocean, and the Manhattan-size mass appears to be drifting slowly toward Australia. As it floats along, scientists said various marine ...

A series of volcanic eruptions 24 to 27 million years ago led to the formation of at least 12 peaks. They range in height from the southern-most peak of Mt Elimbah (Saddleback) at 109 metres, to the ...

A VOLCANIC stone raft has finally crashed into Australia’s coast after an underwater volcano created it last year. The pumice stone raft was bigger than Paris when floating in the ocean and i… ...

The Glass House Mountains are spectacular volcanic plugs rising dramatically from the coastal plain, dominating the landscape of the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

One Japanese soldier has been killed and at least 11 other people were injured, some critically, after a volcanic eruption triggered an avalanche which struck skiers at a mountain resort in Japan ...

Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced 1,400-year-old temple ruins the size of a city block unearthed in Bolivia ...

Large pieces of rhyolite have fallen from a dome face at Lillian Rock. (Supplied: Anita Delliou)Maple syrup vs toffee. From the Glass House Mountains in Queensland through to South Australia ...

Glass House Mountains A series of spectacular volcanic ... the mother, had a number of children of whom Coonowrin (377 m - the narrow and most dramatic of all the volcanic ... in Australia ...