Here's why we only have volcanoes in Australia's east, and where to find them

But most volcanoes in Australia were not created this way, Dr Mather said.

"[Our mechanism] can apply to volcanoes from the southern tip of Tasmania all the way up to northern Queensland," Dr Mather said. "So occasionally that volatile cocktail gets released and that percolates to the surface in the form of volcanoes."The team found peaks in volcanic activity over the past 2 million to 20 million years coincided with fluxes of movement along the Tonga-Kermadec Trench in the Pacific Ocean to the east.

From the Conversation article which this article appears to be somewhat based upon: This article originally referred to Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, which is not in fact volcanic. It should have referred to The Nut, which is. So this article also needs to be corrected.

The link to the scientific paper in the article is broken. Here's the working link :

I already knew this explanation for the source of Australia's east coast volcanoes after having recently watched this excellent video :

Taxpayer dollars at work during the holidays.

I like how you ignored Mount Dandenong, which is also an extinct volcano but visible from the entirety of central / eastern Melbourne more or less

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