The Piton de la Fournaise gives ‘birth’ to two more peaks

(Posted 05th November 2015)

Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion’s active inner island volcano with already five full eruptions to his name this year, has during the course of these eruptions seen two ‘mini volcanos‘ emerge.
The two little peaks were last weekend formally named in honour of both the Hawaiian ‘Goddess of Fire‘ Piton Granmer Kal and after a Japanese scientist Piton Kei Aki.

The naming ceremony took place at Piton Rouge at the edge of the massive crater, allowing invited guests to see the ‘new peaks‘ for themselves.
Present was the President of the island’s tourism board IRT Mr. Patrick Serveaux accompanied by the Head of Reunion National Parks and the President of the Volcano Observatory.
The most recently named new small peak is the Piton Tremblet which formed during the 2007 eruption.
Often ‘sleeping‘ for longer periods of time has the volcano in 2015 already erupted five times to the delight of island visitors who can see the eruption from helicopter flights, traversing the area in a safe distance. The latest eruption took place on the 30th of October with the previous eruption lasting for 56 days between the 24th of August to the 18th of October.
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