The Island

Mount Vema (Vema Seamount) is a volcanic rock, an intraplate volcano known as the 'Vema hotspot' which have moved farther west, about 200 kilometres, after it was created more than 11 million years ago. The island which eroded to be  later known as a sea mount was discovered by a vessel called Vema, and became known as Vema Seamount, which is now with its adjacent waters a sovereign territory controlled by the Vema Seamount Authority.

A submerged island, not a Seamount - 1966 and 2014 Findings

A study published by His Mount Vema Majesty's Government in 2014 agreed with the views of the Nature Publishing Group published in 1966 of the probability that Vema Seamount was once an island at the surface of the sea.

In 2014, The Royal Foundation Academy of Mount Vema concluded in its report presented to His Majesty King Peter Jon Goldishman that its findings were very similar to that reported by Heirtzler James in 1966 titled 'Magnetic Anomaly over Vema Seamount'. The Heirtzler James 1966 Report states that the fact that Vema Seamount magnetization is not exactly reversed suggested that Vema Seamount is not homogeneously magnetized, due perhaps to differential deformation. The theory was supported by the Royal Foundation Academy of Mount Vema in 2014 who also believes based on its own findings that the deformation and the millions of years of wave action eroded the island from the time when the top was at the surface of the sea and planed it off, which explains the Vema Seamount’s flat top.

Heirtzler James 1966 findings report and the Royal Foundation Academy of Mount Vema findings in 2014, both indicate that the magnetic anomaly of Vema Seamount shows the negative part of the anomaly pattern occurring towards magnetic north relative to the positive part of the pattern, indicating that the Seamount could not have been formed at a time when the earth's magnetic field was in its present direction, but rather at a time when the field was in nearly the opposite direction.
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His Majesty’s Government of Mount Vema officially concluded that Vema Seamount is therefore much older than previously thought and it was once an island at the surface of the sea. What remains of the island is what made the world community record it as a Seamount, and not as a special island, or as a submerged island as it should have been recorded as.

The Island of Mount Vema

                                                                          Why is Vema Seamount so unique

​“It is unique because it is probably the only seamount known which rises from the deep ocean basin to a level sufficiently near the surface of the sea to allow effective sunlight penetration, and for direct study by scuba divers using normal equipment.” “It must be remembered that this isolated peak rises directly from the abyssal plain yet reaches the zone of light penetration. There is no direct connection with the mainland of Africa 500 miles to the east, nor with the nearest island group of Tristan da Cunha to the south-west, and St. Helena Bay to the north-west, both a thousand-odd miles away. Therefore, the biological exploration of this small area was bound to prove most interesting, fascinating and rewarding.
​– Captain J. K. M a l l o r y - EXPLORATION OF THE “VEMA” SEAMOUNT