LOST—A TINY ISLAND
Has anyone seen a tiny island? It’s been lost for fifteen years, but scien lists are now very keen on finding -it. So if you know exactly where the wet island of “Sarah Ann,” situated somewhere in the .Pacific Ocean, is to be found, please communicate at once with Professor Kopft.'. of ..Berlin and Professor Robertson of the United States Naval Almanac Office. Yon may wonder why there is all this excitement'over a little scrap of land in the middle of the ocean? Well, the professors have calculated that there will be a total eclipse of the sun in 1!>:17, and that the eclipse will last, for seven minutes just where “Sarah Ann” should be! This piece of land is uninhabited, or was uninhabited when last heard of, and it is said to be the smallest island standing on its own in the world. Ships carefully avoid that locality, for fear of bumping into “Sarah Ann’ in a fog or during the night, and it would be very expensive to organise an expedition in search of it. So it is pos/jiblq that “Sarah Ann” will remain lost for ever, unless, of course, a transpacific aeroplane passes that way one day and spots it from the air!
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 February 1933, Page 10
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