The Largest Continental Chain Of Volcanoes Ever Has Just Been Discovered In Australia
Volcano Track Drew Whitehouse, NCI National Facility VizLab The Cosgrove volcanic track stretches 1243 miles (2000 km) and is the longest chain of continental volcanoes in the world. Australia is known for a lot of dangers. Fires, floods, horrific temperatures, apocalyptic hellscapes... One of the few natural disasters that they've largely managed to avoid is volcanoes. There are no active volcanoes on the Australian mainland, but go a few million years back in time, and you'd find a very different landscape. Researchers recently announced that they had located the largest chain of volcanoes ever found on a continent. The range of volcanoes stretches across the entire continent and onto Tasmania, a distance of over 1,200 miles (2,000 km). How did we miss a massive string of volcanoes? They aren't that...