ACTIVITY OF VOLCANOES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 September 1927, Page 9

ACTIVITY OF VOLCANOES

“WHOLE ISLAND ON FIRE.” TWENTY CONES IN ERUPTION VANCOUVER, Aug. 22. Bogasloff Island, in the "Western Aleutian Islands, which rose from the sea on May 18, 1796, is intensely active again, and appears to be in danger ol violent explosion. The Danish consul a t , Seattle, returning from Eastern Sibeiia in a trading vessel, said that he had gone within three miles of the island. “The whole island seemed to be on fire,” he said. “Smoke and steam were issuing from every part of it and many huge cracks could be seen. Hundreds of sea lions were in the water off the island, roaring as if in protest to the burning of their island borne. We could hear their roaring for six miles. Thousands of birds swarmed about the island. The water was discoloured, and there was a strong smell of sulphur.” Cable advices received last month from Dutch Harbour, Alaska, reported Dr. T. A Jaggar, volcanologist of Hawaii, as having seen 20 large volcanoes in action in the V estern Aleutians. Dr. Jaggar expressed the opinion that there would be a new spell of activity, similar to that of 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake. Both Bogasloff and Fire Island, which rose from the sea in ISS3, have been spasmodically erupting, being joined and separated several times by the raising and lowering of the bottom of the sea.