{"id":30501,"date":"2025-03-03T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30501"},"modified":"2025-04-11T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:28:21","slug":"white-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-island\/","title":{"rendered":"White Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>White Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The owners of New Zealand\u2019s White Island volcano that erupted in 2019, killing 22 tourists and local guides, have had the conviction against them overturned by the country&#8217;s High Court recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About White Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>White Island (also known as <strong>Whakaari<\/strong>) is an <strong>active <\/strong>composite <strong>stratovolcano <\/strong>in the <strong>Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is currently <strong>New Zealand\u2019s most active cone volcano<\/strong>, sitting 48 km off the coast of Whakat\u0101ne in the North Island.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Last major eruption: December 9, 2019 (caused fatalities<\/strong> and injuries)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The cone has been built up by continuous volcanic activity over the past 150,000 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>island covers<\/strong> an area of around <strong>325 hectares,<\/strong> and this is only about <strong>30 percent of the volcano\u2019s mass-the rest is under the sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is two kilometres in diameter, and its peak rises 321 m above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>The island was sighted and <strong>named by Capt. James Cook in 1769.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has numerous hot springs, geysers, and fumaroles.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>privately owned. <\/strong>In 1953 it was declared a <strong>private scenic reserve<\/strong> and has been the focus of tourism activities along with geological and ecological science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>White Island FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is White Island located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is located in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Who owns White Island now?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is privately owned by the Buttress family, who have held ownership since 1936.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the White Island famous for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is famous for being New Zealand&#8217;s most active volcano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/owners-of-new-zealand-volcano-island-spared-over-eruption-that-killed-22-7824358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Island is an active composite stratovolcano in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}