Like Habbakukk?

A Belgium ? How big are Belgiums now 6 foot 3 ? I didn't know Belqiums are used as a common frame of size reference.

The Dogs? Multi-platinum? I've been away fro mNZ for a while and must cibfess I have no idea what you're talking about. A quick google threw up "Sleeping Dogs". Is that them? If so, who is the Polish group?
Your post gets more and more like a puzzle with every word!

Well it is really a massive cloud of small pumice 'balls' covering an area of 30,000km or so... Which is a big area - not sure how contiguous the dense portion of that 'cloud' is though.

Images show that parts of it are completely covered by a continuous mass of pumice 'pebbles' but there are also gaps visible in places...

A mind-bogglingly awesome scale though...

It is a completely OT wander down the lines of the 'NZ navy, the NZ Army etc', and referring to the Radio and TV shows 'The Flight Of The Conchords' about an inept musical duo and their 'manager' bringing NZ culture to the UK (in the Radio show) and US (in the HBO TV show). "The Dogs" were a spin-off group from two new members brought in to support/reform the Chonchords in the TV show. They had a series of fictional platinum hits (while the Conchords still struggle to get gigs much beyond an open mike night), but it turns out that a Polish band had covered all their songs some 20 years before.

<Funny if you've seen it, & it suited your sense of humour - otherwise just the ramblings of a loony ~ just move along, nothing to see here>

Ah - I've never seen the second series, but now I know what you are on about. Well played.

We closed the door behind us when we left last weekend....

Would you prefer Moldova? That country is roughly the size of Belgium. So the headline could have read "Moldova-sized mass of floating pumice found off NZ".

My youngest son is around 6'3" or 193cm 15yo and still growing, his older brothers are 189cm and 192cm so give it a few months and 6'3" could be the average

I'd rather them than us