Two tiny outcrops in Hawaii are the top of the world’s largest volcano

By Michael Marshall

NOAA

An extinct Hawaiian volcano called Pūhāhonu is the finest on this planet, with a volume twice that of the next leading contender. What’s more, the lava that after erupted from Pūhāhonu is the freshest recorded in the past 66 million years.

“Pūhāhonu is maybe the most massive volcano on Earth,” says Michael Garcia at the College of Hawai’i at Mānoa in Honolulu.

At the ground, Pūhāhonu doesn’t search enjoy principal: real a pair of barren, rocky outcrops a whole bunch of kilometres north-west of …