Rare video of Heard Island volcano Big Ben erupting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2016
- Scientists on board the CSIRO research vessel Investigator have taken rare video footage of an eruption of the Big Ben volcano on remote sub-Antarctic Heard Island during an IMAS voyage to the Kerguelen Plateau.
Big Ben, which includes the 2,745 m tall Mawson Peak, the highest mountain on Australian territory north of Antarctica, is known to have erupted at least three other times since 2000.
But the remoteness of Heard Island and the neighbouring McDonald Islands, also an active volcano, means eruptions are rarely glimpsed by people and usually only recognised from sparse satellite images.
RV Investigator is circling the islands on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Plateau as part of an IMAS-led voyage to study the link between active volcanoes on the seafloor and the mobilisation of iron which enriches and supports life in the Southern Ocean.
Voyage Chief Scientist, IMAS's Professor Mike Coffin, and PhD candidate Jodi Fox comment on the eruption.
It's rare because it's probably never been filmed before and few people have ever seen it erupt. The lava is the black stuff on the snow in the first 23 secs. Heard Is Is so remote, so rarely visited, and so rarely clear of cloud that something like this might not be seen again for years.
So glad it was recorded at 1080p. It made it seem like the volcano wasn't 2,000 miles away, only 1,000. Great to see that tiny puff of smoke so clearly.
Wait, what? I thought it 10 miles away and for a hand-help shot...pretty darn good.
Had to give this video some likes, for all the ignorant people giving dislikes expecting to see huge explosions. Nothing misleading about the title.
Yeah, for a lot of people YT is all about lights, camera, and especially, ACTION !!!
Thanks for being there, and for the 1080p video. Terrific to see it so clearly.
1080o? I am unfamiliar with that resolution. Looks pretty good to me.
@@geraldhenrickson7472 I have corrected it to 1080p.
I didn't even know this island existed until I came across your video. Wow. Thanks. What great footage. I live vicariously through people like you. Thank you.
I just randomly discovered it while exploring around Antarctica on Goog Earth
I don't understand what's with all the dislikes. Were people expecting Vesuvius/Mount St. Helens?
TrueWords indeed! It was a great if brief look at a very remote and understudied volcano.
Yeah, they were. Volcano groupies, looking for big fireworks. Typical of most of the population, who are not and never will be scientists doing the hard work.
This volcano is in Australia.
I was expecting an explosion.
Same
Life is always exciting
And what more were you expecting sunshine? A title change to "Rare video of Heard Island volcano Big Ben exploding!!!!" and a Paul Hogan cameo?
Dash---HA HA. Good Comment.
That was awesome. Thanks for sharing! That last shot with the clouds all lined up looked interesting too ;)
Awesome footage! I'd kill to be there to witness it; it just looks so cool!
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We have enlisted you in our program.
Very interesting! I think it would be so cool to be a researcher and see dynamic earth processes like this!!!
How amazing to see. I discovered this island a couple months ago from curiousity staying up all night on google earth. I googled and researched information about it , the island is outstanding to see a video of for sure… wow. I just randomly had a spark of curiosity come to me to look the island up on TH-cam , glad I did!
How far out could you see the mountain top?
So I was going through google maps and I saw a Volcano to the west of Heard Island and Google doesn't say anything about it, do you people know what it is???
Nice catch! I was looking at google Earth satellite imagery of Heard just now and there appears to be two small volcanic cinder cones on the extreme northwestern coast area. Is that actually what I'm seeing? They don't look too old, but have some vegetation on the lower flanks and inside.
That thing must be really tall at the end it looked like it was pretty close to the clouds
So lonely it was glad of some company and couldn’t resist waving Hello!
ill say this was a stellar effort by these people.
If you gys ever need an assistant to go one of these expeditions I will happily serve
How can I get aboard on one of these excursions? If y’all are looking for extra help I have about 7 years of electrical experience!
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing, be very interesting to get a drone to fly over & see what happening In the crater.
So how many states and territories did they teach in school. I'm 30 and never knew or heard of this other territry of Australia. Wonder how big Ben is going now with all the other rising activity around the world
What eruption?
liked it. with comments from scientists yet. cool.
I am confused....Heard Island is nearly 800 miles north of any Antarctic landfall. Why is the term "sub-Antarctic" used to describe the island's position? The word "sub" usually denotes under. Since the island is neither South of Antarctica nor under the same I am confused. Please explain. Thanks.
not as antarctic as the antarctic
It's below latitude that is considered the antarctic. Really all antarctic land is technically sub-antarctic.
COOOL I wish I had a job where I was one of the few people that were able to see this island.
That was the most intense eruption of all the times...
That was the GOAT comment of all time. Very clever. Remarkable even.
Siapa yg kesini gara gara nonton yt crash?
Gua liat dari google map ga sengaja Nemu pulau kecil,pas d perbesar ada namanya mawson peak,trs gua cek dah eh ternyata ada 😂,SALAM INDONESIA BROO!!!
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I looked up Big Ben volcano after finding it on Apple maps
Thanks for share video
GOD BLESS everyone
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Cool 🗻
So unique video of a beautiful volcano in one of the world's wildest places isn't exciting enough? Funny world. Guess it's back to Maccas and the Playstation and re-runs of The Fast and the Furious for you then.
I love research, science, and exploration videos. For several months, I drove by Mt. St. Helens and saw it doing this. You can see Mt. Baker do this fairly often. Came expecting to see an actual eruption and left with some steam. The only thing rare about this video is that I have never heard of or seen a picture of this volcano before. Very beautiful though and wish I was on the ship with you!.
+oscargordon you should realize that the rare thing about this video is the fact that as far as i know there has never been a video of an eruption on heard island and that observations of this volcano are very, very rare
just wow.
The dislikes are unjustified
I didn’t know this place existed until today when I was bored going over google maps 😂
That's the edge ~B.O.B
Bonjour a tous je connaît pas se volcan il est bizarre franchement je les jamais vue se volcan franchement il est grand et beau j'adore nouveau volcan pour moi
the video of Paint Drying was just a tad more intense
Sure yet...did you watch the entire video?
Came to see lava, was disappointed.
It look like someone was burning car tires again…😅
luar bisa
This was the biggest let down of 2017
Foi só fumaça....
I found this island on snap mal
Lonely mountain in the middle of the ocean 😂
Came here expecting an explosion.
I live on that island
How is it ?
And it was rare in the video too.
JAYSUS CHRIST! Where the hell are ALL the fire fighter's?
wow, was anybody hurt?
Your concern was...slightly amusing. It was concern nonetheless.
How is it rare video if its posted on TH-cam for all the world to see?
nobody has ever seen big ben erupt before this
Perhaps there is but one video?
That’s not an eruption, thats merely a land fart
Very
Australia’s highest peak.
WOW......................................-_-
That was more of a toot...maybe a squeaker
+Kegan Terry Definitely a squeaker.
Seemed rather ... flaccid.
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Eruption? That's a little queef.
Where's the lava
+Nathan Freeman at 0:15, just have a look at the summit and you will see the dark lines just in the middle, that's how a lavaflow looks like!
+maximopleasures oh thanks I didn't even notice that lol. Tell them to get closer now.
where's big ben
The volcano is big ben
The Big Ben Volcano is in Australia.
@@miauwgabriel3547just around the corner from Perth
Was expecting to see some pompeii shit... was disappointed.
Lol
The world isn’t run by Micheal bay
Guys it was just a prank. I tossed a smoke bomb up there. HA Got em!
Just like one of Obama's speeches... Supposed to be epic, but in reality super boring with nothing happening.
wow how boring he said they can see lava poring out of the volcano yet didn't record that part
The lava is the black lines on top of the mountain
waste...
Lucky for us to see one of GOD'S wonderful events unfold.
Underwhelming af
global warming..?
+Your2k yeah no way man has affected earth in any way in the last oh lets say 2 hundred years. its like spitting in the ocean.
+Your2k i agree with you. Planets go thru many changes on their own and politicians should pressure other countries to show how they fight their own pollution.
its a volcano, and a very active one at that. humans have no affect on volcanoes as its a natural occurence on earth and other planets. if anything affects volcano activity, its plate tectonics. humans can increase greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, causing more heat to be trapped from the sun, leading to the melting of the polar ice caps and other extreme weather. oh, and btw, it's climate change, not global warming
The idea that we cannot affect the environment is absurd. You guys realize that we've burned 2 massive holes in the ozone layer, right? Go ahead and deny man made climate change, but the fact is that if the earth continues to heat up like it has for the past 150 years we're completely fucked. You can either do nothing or try something. Up to you.
+Your2k Well that's not true. It was first observed in the 70s at the earliest. It was first reported in a scientific journal in 1985. It was a huge shock to the scientific community at the time. I wouldn't mind being proven wrong, but I really doubt you could provide credible evidence to support that.
weak.
...you crybabies serous?
this is considered an eruption
worst. erruption. ever.
Was expecting to see some pompeii shit... was disappointed. here we have our first candidate for "Most Boring Video of 2016"
"Eruption" isn't "Explosion", so deal with it
Sure, it's rare and whatever, but this is seriously boring! For what you get out of it, the entire video was way too long........................
+Joe b Soto Not really.
See mother earth dose her job sometimes
wow, was anybody hurt?