Pukao (seamount)

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The Pukao Seamount is a submarine volcano, the most westerly in the Easter Seamount Chain or Sala y Gómez ridge. To the east are Moai (seamount) and then Easter Island. It rises over 2,500 metres from the ocean floor to within a few hundred metres of the sea surface.^[1] The Pukao Seamount is fairly young, and believed to have developed in the last few hundred thousand years as the Nazca Plate floats over the Easter hotspot.

See also

• Easter Island
• Sala y Gómez

References

26°55′56″S 110°14′56″W / 26.9323°S 110.2490°W / -26.9323; -110.2490

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