The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain ...

"I am claiming it for me and for Tonga," he says, with a large gap-toothed ... Local fishermen saw dense ash and rocks spewed some 400 metres into the sky. Plumes of steam and gas soared more ...