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Kilauea Volcano helicopter tour

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Lava hitting the ocean
19.376903°N 155.062752°W

The lava flows through lava tubes to the ocean where it creates plumes of steam when it hits the cold water.


Lava hitting the ocean
19.328355°N 155.015159°W

Close up view.


Lava hitting the ocean
19.327181°N 155.015202°W

Skylight
19.364434°N 155.091591°W

Area where the solid lava has collapsed into the lava tube exposing the lava below.


Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater
19.387834°N 155.107169°W

Lava is exposed


Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater
19.388643°N 155.105753°W
The traditional helicopter flights take you over Pu'u 'O'o crater, the areas where the lava is hitting the ocean, and Kilauea caldera.

Description


A column of white smoke rises off a simmering black-topped lava lake in the center of a large semi-circular crater. Its most recent eruptive product has left a dark channel leading off to the left, and the terrain surrounding the cone is sparse; another column of smoke and a large shield-shaped mastiff rise in the background.

Kīlauea (/klˈ.ə/; Hawaiian: [ˈkiːlɔuˈwɛjə]) is a shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiʻi. Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano, at 300,000 to 600,000 years old, is the second youngest product of the Hawaiian hotspot and the current eruptive center of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. Because it lacks topographic prominence and its activities historically coincided with those of Mauna Loa, Kīlauea was once thought to be a satellite of its much larger neighbor. Structurally, Kīlauea has a large, fairly recently formed caldera at its summit and two active rift zones, one extending 125 km (78 mi) east and the other 35 km (22 mi) west, as an active fault line of unknown depth moving vertically an average of 2 to 20 mm (0.1 to 0.8 in) per year.

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