Wōdejebato is an undersea volcanic mountain with a flat top (a guyot),
and probably a shield volcano, in the northern Marshall Islands of the
Pacific. Formed of basaltic rocks, it is connected through a
74-kilometre (46 mi) submarine ridge to the smaller Bikini Atoll to its
southeast. Named for a sea god of Bikini, Wōdejebato rises 4,420 metres
(14,500 ft) above the ocean floor, to within 1,335 metres (4,380 ft)
of the surface. It was probably formed by a hotspot in present-day
French Polynesia before being shifted by plate tectonics. A volcanic
episode in the Late Cretaceous led to the formation of an island and a
carbonate platform that disappeared below the sea. A second volcanic
episode between 85 and 78.4 million years ago created an island that was
eventually eroded, generating an atoll or atoll-like structure that
covered the former island with carbonates. The second carbonate platform
drowned about 68 million years ago.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%8Ddejebato>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1933:
A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of
several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Banneux>
1991:
Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent
allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute
its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia>
2009:
US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during
its initial climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing
in the Hudson River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
field of vision:
The area that a person, an animal, etc., can see with its eyes (or each
eye individually) without turning the head.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/field_of_vision>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are
varieties of absolutism.
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon>