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The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano is a computer game in The Learning Company's ClueFinders series of educational software.In the game, the ClueFinders are shipwrecked on a mysterious volcanic island, inhabited by centuries of trapped castaways, where any escape attempt seems to be deliberately thwarted by natural forces.
The island, with an area of 12.6 square kilometres (4.9 sq mi), [4] represents the upper third of the volcano. [5] Its population was about 500 as of 2016 [update] . [ 2 ] The volcano has erupted many times and is constantly active with minor eruptions, often visible from many points on the island and from the surrounding sea, giving rise to ...
Geologically, a volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin. The term high island can be used to distinguish such islands from low islands , which are formed from sedimentation or the uplifting of coral reefs (which have often formed on sunken volcanoes).
The game, alongside the original Kao the Kangaroo and Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 were added to GOG.com and to Zoom-Platform in February 2021. [10] The game was added to Steam [11] and the Epic Games Store [12] on 27 April 2023.
Nishinoshima (Japanese: 西之島, "western island") is a volcanic island located around 940 km (584 mi) south-southeast of Tokyo that is part of the Volcano Islands arc. . Nishinoshima is located about 130 km to the west of the nearest inhabited Ogasawara islands, Chichijima Island, hence the name; the other Ogasawara island groups are aligned more to the north–
Fonualei is an uninhabited volcanic island in the kingdom of Tonga.It 70 km northwest of Vavaʻu and is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc, which extends from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji, and is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Indo-Australian Plate. [2]
The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia saw an eruption on 22 December 2018 which caused a deadly tsunami, with waves surging up to five meters in height. The tsunami killed at least 437 ...
The geology of Antigua and Barbuda is part of the Lesser Antilles volcanic island arc. Both islands are the above water limestone "caps" of now inactive volcanoes. The two islands are the surface features of the undersea Barbuda Bank and have karst limestone landscapes. [1] Barbuda is primarily flat and formed from coral reefs.