FALCON ISLAND REAPPEARS
VOLCANO IN ERUPTION (Rec. October 11, 7.30 p.m.) Suva, October 11. The British Agent and Consul at Tonga received a wireless message from H.M.S. Laburnum on October 8, stating that Falcon Island has reappeared, and is in eruption. The volcano plavs at intervals of about one minute every twenty minutes. From observations the island is 1730 vards in length, the north and .south direction, aud 1430 yards broad, in. an east and west direction. The sides slope up gradually.to the edge of the crater, which is 305 feet high. The position is as charted. The island is forty-five miles, approximately, north of Nukualofa.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 11
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