Lau Basin
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Located in the Lau Basin along the Tonga Trench in the southwest Pacific Ocean, the West Mata volcano is part of a series of submarine volcanoes in the area bordered by Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji.
December 18, 2009 3:14 PM PST
Photo by: NOAA and NSF
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