the brochures advertising trips to Whakaari / White Island said - but should tourists have been allowed there in the first place, and should they be allowed back? In 2012, Ohio's Denison University associate professor of geosciences Erik Klemetti wrote an article titled How dangerous is visiting New Zealand's White Island? When Whakaari erupted on 9 December last year, Klemetti was at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. GNS SCIENCE View on 16 November 2020 of steam, gas and ash emission from the 2019 primary vent area of the Whakaari/White Island crater. The Department of Internal Affairs is also working with other government agencies about future access to Whakaari / White Island.

Source: Stuff December 06, 2020 22:52 UTC