A MOVING ISLAND

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2305, 25 November 1925, Page 14

A MOVING ISLAND

CURIOUS THEORIES An officer in the French Georletif Service, Commandant Helbronner. who has just completed a survey of the Island of Corsica, has made the startling announcemnt that the island has moved eastward a distance of about 33 feet In the last 100 years, says the “Christian Science Monitor." It may be that his computations will not be confirmed, but they are nat. finally attracting attention. There are curious theories regarding the mobility of continents and islands, end it is suggested by some geologists that the earth’s crust is shifting horizontally. It is also shifting vertically, if the geographers who believe that the distance between Europe and Greenland has increased during the last century are well founded. The hypothesis that the earth rests upon a fluid base is attributed to Alfred Wegener, a German natural scientist Recently it was shown that a submarine plateau has arisen, according to naval soundings, in the Bay of Gascony. These findings have naturally given a good deal of material to the witty writers, who affirm that Corsica, although nominally French, has Italian affinities and is therefore moving more or less rapidly in tho direction of Its parent country.