Tamu Massif
Former Texas A&M oceanographer Will Sager revealed his discovery of an underwater volcano about 1,000 miles off the coast of Japan in a mountain range known as the Shatsky Rise. He nicknamed the volcano Tamu Massif – “Tamu” for the abbreviation of Texas A&M while “Massif” is a French word frequently used to describe a large mountain mass.Read more: https://today.tamu.edu/2014/04/17/worlds-largest-volcano-now-named-tamu-plateau/