{"id":3755,"date":"2023-02-05T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:42:09","slug":"where-is-the-kermadec-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-the-kermadec-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Kermadec Islands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kermadec Islands:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>volcanic island group<\/strong> in the <strong>South Pacific Ocean<\/strong>, 600 mi (1,000 km<strong>) northeast of Auckland, New Zealand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are a <strong>dependency of New Zealand<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The islands are <strong>a volcanic island arc<\/strong>, formed at the <strong>convergent boundary<\/strong> where the <strong>Pacific Plate subducts under the Indo-Australian Plate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are the <strong>tiny emergent part of a chain of submarine volcanoes<\/strong> that define the <strong>Kermadec ridge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They are uninhabited<\/strong>, <strong>except for Raoul Island<\/strong> where a team of Department of Conservation staff carry out weed control work and make meteorological observations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The climate<\/strong> of the islands <strong>is subtropical.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The islands are <strong>seismically active.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a tectonic plate?<\/h3>\n<p>A tectonic plate (also called lithospheric plate) is a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere. Plate size can vary greatly, from a few hundred to thousands of kilometers across; the Pacific and Antarctic Plates are among the largest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/magnitude-earthquake-strikes-kermadec-islands-in-new-zealand-2342581-2023-03-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Kermadec Islands in New Zealand<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kermadec Islands are volcanic island group in South Pacific Ocean, 1,000 km northeast of Auckland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3755","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\/3755","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=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}