Ring of Fire Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Farther west, the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex, with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand; this portion excludes Australia, since it lies in the center of its tectonic plate. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java,
Ring of Fire (novel) Ring of Fire (novel) Ring of Fire is the English translation of L'anello di fuoco, the 2006 Italian fantasy novel for young people written by Pierdomenico Baccalario, with illustrations by Lacopo Bruno. "Ring of Fire" is Book One of the Century Quartet. The English translation by Leah D. Janeczko was published in New York by Random House, in 2009 (). It is held in 597 WorldCat libraries. The novel has been also been translated into French, German and Dutch. Book Two, "Star of Stone" (), set in New York City, was published in English in 2010. Book Three, "City of