{"id":120975,"date":"2023-11-09T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120975"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:08:57","slug":"the-beautiful-mountain-taller-than-mount-everest-but-nobody-has-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/the-beautiful-mountain-taller-than-mount-everest-but-nobody-has-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful mountain taller than Mount Everest but nobody has heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawaii: Subaru Telescope captures 'spiral' over Mauna Kea<\/h3>\n

Mount Everest is most definitely the world’s tallest mountain above sea level.<\/p>\n

Its peak is 8,849 metres above the ocean, meaning it is the piece of land at the highest altitude on Earth.<\/p>\n

But if we’re talking on technical terms, Everest falls far short of being the tallest mountain on Earth when looking at those that begin below sea level.<\/p>\n

This title goes to Mauna Kea, the long-dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Standing at some 10,205 metres tall, it has a considerable edge on Everest \u2014 but few people have ever heard of it.<\/p>\n

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Over half of Mauna Kea is underwater in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Approximately 6,000 metres of the mountain is beneath the sea, with a lesser 4,205 above sea level, meaning that in total, Mauna Kea is somewhere around 1.4 kilometres taller than Everest.<\/p>\n

While it has been inactive for a whopping 4,500 years \u2014 around the same time that Stonehenge was being built \u2014 the United States Geological Survey (USGS) claims that it \u201cis likely to erupt again.”<\/p>\n

Luckily, the world would know well in advance of its potential eruption, for Hawaii is home to the largest astronomical observatory on Earth.<\/p>\n

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