From the Nov. 19 edition of the Maine Sunday Telegram:
New Island Emerges
Crew members of a yacht sailing westward from the South Pacific island nation of Tonga toward Fiji say they witnessed the birth of a new island, which appars to have emerged from the Pacific during a volcanic eruption.
Those onboard the Maiken initially were puzzled by the vast blanket of pumice that they sailed through for several miles. But they later came across an uncharted steaming island in Tonga's Vava'u group, which was apparently created by an undersea volcano.
The crew described the new island as being one mile in diameter with four peaks and a central crater. Tongan government geologist Kelepi Mafi said he plans to visit the new chunk of rock if his country can afford to dispatch a military ship.
You might also want to bring along a mathemetician schooled in non-Euclidean geometry, and maybe a psychically-sensitive artist or two. The stars are right, after all.
Is there anyone else out there who envisioned Doug McClure as the Maiken's captain?
I saw the same island! Lex Luthor made it by dropping crystals from Krypton into the bay just off Metropolis and then they kicked Brandon Routh's ass all over it.
Those savvy Tongans are clearly up on their mythos - in Lovecraft I believe the final score was Ships 1, Cthulhu 0.