Aerial view of new lava flow on south coast of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i

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Photograph by J. Kauahikaua on September 3, 1998

Aerial view looking southward shows wide path of pahoehoe flows (shiny surface, foreground) that reached the ocean about 2 weeks after a 2-3 day pause in the eruption. This new entry area is about 300-400 m west (right) of the long-established east Kamokuna entry (still active as shown by the left steam plume rising behind a littoral cone, which is fed by a lava tube).