Puhahonu tops Mauna Loa as the world’s largest shield volcano
On a lonely stretch of ocean in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands sits an unremarkable pair of guano-covered rocky islets that belie the behemoth hidden beneath them.
Below the reef that surrounds Gardner Pinnacles is a shield volcano that University of Hawaii-Manoa scientists have proclaimed the largest in the world.
That determination, announced in a newly published study, means that Mauna Loa is no longer considered the world’s largest shield volcano.
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