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Steve Braunias: White Island latest tragedy in year of grief and unimaginable terror

Steve Braunias
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Senior Writer·NZ Herald·
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It looked like the surface of the Moon in broad blue daylight. Something grey and weird, a big lump of rock and dust, good for nothing, lifeless and inert except for one very active and horribly fatal thing: smoke.

Like everyone else yesterday afternoon and into the night, I stared at the images of White Island taken by tourists Michael Schade and Allessandro Kauffmann. They put them on Twitter and Instagram, and soon their pictures were published and broadcast

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