‘I wanted to investigate whether the magic islands could actually be organics floating on the surface, like pumice that can float on water here on Earth before finally sinking,’ said Dr Yu.

Only a very thin band of floating pumice was observed from the air ... Nakada said the pumice was created by the erosion of the emerging island, but few traces of it exist now.

Aerial footage showed numerous pumice stones floating in waters off the Igaya and Ako districts on the western part of the small island on Nov. 23. The pumice was ejected from an underground ...

The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a New Zealand air force plane about 1,000 kilometres northwest of Auckland. The rocks stretch for about 26,000 square ...