This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

Acting Commissioner of Police Juki Fong Chew and Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Shamima Ali The Police Force is strongly refuting claims made by the Coordinator of the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre ...

How to watch 'An t-Eilean/The Island' online and on-demand in the U.K. If you live in the U.K. then you can stream "An t-Eilean/The Island" on BBC iPlayer from Tuesday, January 14 . You'll need a ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...

Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...