 Home Reef temporarily rose above sea level in island-building eruptions in 1852, 1857, 1984, and 2006.After a volcanic eruption started on 8 August 2006, Home Reef emerged as an island; that eruption also spewed into Tongan waters large amounts of floating pumice, which swept across to Fiji about to the west of the new island.In October 2006 it reached almost the same size as it did in 1984 when it was about .