Macauley Island is composed mainly of black basaltic lava flows with a single, thick layer of white pumice and ash: the Sandy Bay Tephra. Radiocarbon dating of fragments of leaves and twigs from near the base of the tephra shows that it was ejected about 7,100 years ago.
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Photograph by Simon Nathan
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