VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.
OUTBURST IN BONIN
ISLANDS
(Received 9.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day.
Eastern files to hand contain details of a volcanic eruption which occurred on Torigima Island, in the Bonin Group, early in the present
month,
Huge volumes of smoke and sand, it is stated, were thrown up from the centre of the island, the shape of which was entirely changed by the outbreak.
There were a hundred and sixty residents on the island. Their fate is
unknown,
[The Bonin, or Ogasawara, Islands are a group of small volcanic islands in the North-Western Pacific, 700 miles S.S.E. of Japan, where 27 north lat. crosses 142 east long. The area is about 32 square miles, and the population small. They were discovered in 1639 by Quast and Tasman, and in 1827 were taken possession of by Great Britain, but in IS7B the Japanese reasserted their sovereignty, with the view of making them a penal settlement.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 232, 30 September 1902, Page 3
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