Recently-discovered underwater volcano named for this popular franchise

A group of researchers in Australia has uncovered the remnants of an ancient underwater volcano in the Indian Ocean that resembles J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy's "Eye of Sauron."

Announcing the find in the publication The Conversation, O'Hara wrote that the volcano was revealed slowly using multibeam sonar at a depth of 3,100 meters beneath Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) ocean research vessel RV Investigator around 280 kilometers southeast of Christmas Island and on the 12th day of the team's voyage to Australian's Indian Ocean Territories. "Previously unknown and unimagined, this volcano emerged from our screens as a giant oval-shaped depression called a caldera, 6.2 kilometers by 4.8 kilometers across. It is surrounded by a 300 [meter]-high rim (resembling Sauron’s eyelids), and has a 300 [meter] high cone-shaped peak at its…[center](the "pupil")," he explained.