GOODWIN SANDS ON THE MOVE
r ,P, remarkable fact concerning the Goodwin Sands, on which is to be dumped the 00.000 tons of refuse which will be brought to the surface each week when the East Kent coalfields are developed, is that they are steadily moving landwards at the rate of about J 4 yards a year.
Some authorities say that the sands will Ultimately rejoin the mainland. So gicat is their power of ingurgitation that they will suck up the refuse dump<l cm them as easily as blotting paper ill absorb ink, but if the process is ’ontinuod long enough the area may be eoiaimed from the sea, and this ‘graveyard of mariners” removed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11855, 14 June 1924, Page 9
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115GOODWIN SANDS ON THE MOVE New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11855, 14 June 1924, Page 9
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