A MOVING ISLAND
An officer in the French Geodetic Service, Commander IHelbronner, who Atas just completed a survey of the Island of Corsica, has made the startling announcement 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 naturally attracting considerable attentioi There are curious theories regarding the mobility of continents and islands\ and it is suggested by -some geologisi.\ 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 iplateau ha s arisen, according to naval soundings, in the Bay of Gascony. These findings have naturally given a good deal of material to the wittywriters, who affirm that Corsica, although nominally French, has Italian affinities and is therefore moving more or less rapidly in the direction of its parent country.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1688, 19 November 1925, Page 7
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