"JAZZ" ISLAND TAKES A REST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 287, 4 December 1930, Page 20

"JAZZ" ISLAND TAKES A REST.

TURBULENT BOGOSLOF. NOW WELL POPULATED. The jazz island of the North Pacific Ocean is about to settle down. That giddy lady of Behring Sea, Bogoslof Island, still fumes and fusses, however, and you never can tell about when she may do the black bottom, declaie geologists.

A good sign that nature has asserted herself at Bogoslof, according to reports brought by the cutter Chelan, is that tlio exposed rocky land is much cooler than last summer. Millions of birds and thousands of sea lions inhabit the island to-day, affording spectacles for tourists on the occasional ship that approaches and gives off a blast of her whistle. Bogoslof, in Behring Sea, just off the mainland of Alaska, first attracted attention in 190G, when it changed shape materially. Water about the island was so hot vessels dared not approach nearer than five miles. Then in 1910 the island ducked beneath the sea, only to reappear months later. In 192.1 the/ contour again changed. One vessel reported that one island of the two had disappeared, but the United States Coast Guard vessel Bear investigated, and this ,revcaled that the land had risen much higher than previously, and that where there were two islands both had emerged enough to be just a single section of land. Since then. Bogoslof lias been pretty steady, almost sedate, except for some* fuming and spouting of smoke from its pea k.

Other volcanoes of tlic Aleutian chain have been in almost constant eruption in tho past summer. Garloi, Kanaga, Akutan, Katmai, I'avlof, Shislmldin, and Vsediov all arc smoking, with mushroom halos hanging over their craters.