Monster 24-metre wave breaks world record for biggest EVER documented in the Southern Hemisphere

A monster wave has broken the world record for the largest wave ever in the southern hemisphere.

The record-breaking wave measured 23.8 metres and lashed Campbell Island, off New Zealand’s south coast, according to the Meteorological Metservice of New Zealand. 

Tom Durrant senior oceanographer said: ‘This is a very exciting event and it is the largest wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.’ 

(File photo) Photo shows a Southern Ocean storm in 2016 hitting an offshore patrol vessel Otago

The record-breaking wave measured 23.8 metres and lashed Campbell Island, off New Zealand’s south coast

Tom Durrant senior oceanographer said: ‘This is a very exciting event and to our knowledge it is largest wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere’

Mr Durrant said that it’s likely waves as high as 25m could have also crashed during the peak of the storm on Tuesday that the buoy did not record, 9News reports.  

‘The Southern Ocean is definitely the most under-observed ocean in the world, Dr Durrant told Fairfax media. 

‘The region accounts for about 22 per cent of the planet’s oceans, and it’s the most energetic part of the world’s oceans in terms of waves,’ he said. 

The wave broke the previous record of 22.03 metres recorded south of Tasmania in 2012. 

Last November Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa, 22, caught a monster 24m wave at Nazaré in Portugal.

He won an award earlier this year at Big Wave Awards in California Koxa for breaking the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed.

‘It was the best day of my life,’ Mr Koxa said.

Last November Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa, 22, caught a monster 24m wave at Nazaré in Portugal

Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed

Rodrigo Koxa recalls the day he rode the monster wave. ‘It was the best day of my life,’ he said