“Bamboo shoot rock” and pillow lava in Sado Island, Japan

Photographer

T. T. Tanaka

Category

London Photography - Nature

Company

ENCOUNTERS

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Japan

Lava eruption scar from an undersea volcano 20 million years ago. The sharply pointed rocks look like bamboo shoots. It is hard to believe that this is a scene from Earth. Sado Island in northern Japan.

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