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This list of rogue waves compiles incidents of known and likely rogue waves – also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, and extreme waves. These are dangerous and rare ocean surface waves that unexpectedly reach at least twice the height of the tallest waves around them, and are often described by witnesses as "walls of water ...
The Tasman Sea is 2,250 km (1,400 mi) wide and has an area of 2,300,000 km 2 (890,000 sq mi). [1] The maximum depth of the sea is 5,943 m (19,498 ft). [4] The base of the sea is made up of globigerina ooze. A small zone of pteropod ooze is found to the south of New Caledonia and to the southern extent of 30°S, siliceous ooze can be found. [5]
The Great are 3 sea monsters featured as bosses in the survival video game "Stranded Deep" The sea monster from Monkeybone is an inhabitant of Down Town and is performed by Nathan Stein. It resembles a piscine humanoid that is protruding from the back of its large seahorse-like mount.
Topographic map of Zealandia that includes the Britannia Guyots at the sea bottom of the Tasman Sea in the line of the Tasmantid hotspot seamounts off the east coast of Australia. They are basaltic volcanoes that erupted between 17,600,000 and 20,800,000 years ago, [ 2 ] with survey data that indicates they rise about 4,000 m (13,000 ft) above ...
The Tasmantid Seamount Chain (alternatively Tasmantid Seamounts, Tasman Seamounts, Tasman Seamount Chain, Tasmantide Volcanoes or the Tasmantids) [2] is a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) long chain of seamounts in the South Pacific Ocean. The chain consists of over 16 extinct volcanic peaks, many rising more than 4,000 m (13,000 ft) from the seabed.
The nest is built mainly by the female, with the male gathering most of the material. The egg is incubated alternately by both parents in long, two to three week shifts, the first of which is undertaken by the male, while the non-incubating bird is away foraging, often in the Tasman Sea up to 1000–1500 km away from the nesting site. [1]
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) (palawa kani: purinina) [3] is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.It was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the island of Tasmania.
March 9, 1962 issue of The Mercury covering the Tasmanian Globster.. The Tasmanian Globster was a large unidentified carcass that washed ashore 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) north of Interview River in western Tasmania, in August 1960.