Manhattan-sized island of floating volcanic rock completes 3,000-km journey to Australia (VIDEOS)

Australia Volcano

A vast ‘life raft’ made of floating rock has made landfall in Queensland Australia, having emerged from an underwater volcano in the Pacific last year. Scientists believe it could resurrect portions of the Great Barrier Reef.

The fleet of floating pumice rocks, which at one stage was twice the size of Manhattan, emerged from the volcano dubbed ‘Volcano F’ or ‘0403-091’ which erupted last August near the Vavaʻu islands in Tonga.

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