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Kilauea is one of the world's most active shield volcanoes

Continuous eruptions from 1983 to 2018 added hundreds of acres of new land

Located on the Big Island of Hawaii, Kilauea has erupted almost continuously for decades. Its Pu'u O'o eruption phase lasted 35 years, pouring lava into the ocean and adding roughly 200 hectares of new coastline. Hawaiian oral history and geological records show near-constant eruptive activity for centuries.

Kīlauea Visitor Center, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii (4528571717) — Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · licence · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Continuous eruptions from 1983 to 2018 added hundreds of acres of new land. The figure is taken from USGS, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.