These methods have revealed some unexpectedly immense formations in the deepest parts of the mantle; the largest of these is a buoyant mass of hot rock directly below Africa's southern tip.

It is one of southern England's maritime counties. It reveals a beautiful story of the earth's formation over millions of years, through some of the amazing rock formations and fossils.

To go from the northernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago to its farthest-flung southern rock is to travel from Norway’s North Cape to Rome.