 What Tuzo Wilson decided was that the Pacific plate was moving over three hot spots. The Hawaii-Emperor Seamounts, Tuamotu, and the Austral groups of islands each formed over a different hot spot.
About 43 million years ago the Pacific plate shifted its path to a more northwesterly direction. All the island groups changed course at the same time!!
He also concluded that all the islands in the Emperor Seamount- Hawaiian chain all formed over the same hot spot that is currently under the big island of Hawaii today .
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