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Mahuika crater



Mahuika crater is a disputed submarine bolide impact crater, 20 ± 2 kilometers wide and over 153 meters deep, on the New Zealand continental shelf at , named for the Māori god of fire. It was discovered by Dallas Abbott and her colleagues from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of the Columbia University.



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