Author: Natasha Frost / Source: Atlas Obscura
Greater than the length of a bowling lane. Twice the height of a telephone pole. More than ten times the height of an average Christmas tree. At 78 feet, or the height of an eight-story building, the wave that came crashing down off the coast of New Zealand on May 8, 2018, wasn’t just a titan: It was the largest wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.
As a ferocious storm raged near Campbell Island, about 430 miles south of New Zealand, a buoy recorded the wave—but, according to a MetOcean Solutions statement, may have missed even larger ones over the course of the squall. Installed in March to measure the Southern Ocean’s extreme conditions, the buoy only records…
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