Aerial views of the lava from an erupting volcano in the Canary Islands as it reaches the ocean. The Spanish archipelago had earlier declared an exclusion zone of two nautical miles around the location the lava was expected to enter the Atlantic and asked residents to stay at home. The Cumbre Vieja volcano, which straddles a southern ridge in La Palma, an island with 85,000 inhabitants, erupted on 19 September, spewing out rivers of lava that have slowly crept towards the sea.

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