The country of Japan is a Panarea and fjord consisting of more than 6,000 islands. But now, the map of Japan will have to attach another new feature as a tiny new island has popped up out of nowhere. As per Japan’s coast guard, the new island is 1 km in diameter and is shaped like a half-moon. The meteorological agency of Japan said that the volcano erupted last week and the eruption is ongoing. The smoke warning has been issued in the islands nearby as well as the chance of large deposits of ash in water bodies near the volcano, Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.

The discovery was made by the Japanese coast guard on Sunday, August 15. The coast guard was conducting aerial inspections of the burst when the crew found what looked like a large floating volcanic rock deposit on the sea. However, it is too early to confirm if the island will become permanent or ends up disappearing in a few years. The phenomenon is not new to Japan. Such islands developed in the region on at least three occasions before in 1904, 1914 and 1986 only to finally corrode from the persistent striking of sea waves.

In 2013, a similar island ended up merging with an existing Japanese island called Nishinoshima. The new island could end up being a permanent feature if continuous eruption gives it more matter and it forms a hard shell that is durable. If the island stays, the size of the territory that Japan occupies may grow just by a few hundred metres.

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