AN ISLAND GROWING OUT OF THE SEA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11977, 21 September 1906, Page 5

AN ISLAND GROWING OUT OF THE SEA.

A dispatch from Tacoma (Washington), August 9, says: — An island growing up out of the ocean like a cabbage is what is taking place in the Behring sea, according to Captain John Trowbridge, of the steamer Northwestern, just arrived here from the Orient. The Northwestern touched at Dutch Harbour. Falling in with the revenue cutter Perry, which had finished a cruise of investigation in the neighbourhood of the island, the officers of the cutter had photographs taken of the island, wtfich first rose from the sea fifty-two miles from Dutch Harbour in June last. It is being steadily pushed higher, until, the officers say, it is now nine hundred feet above the ocean. The sea in the neighbourhood is boiling, and, from the surface, clouds of steam are continually escaping. The island lies directly between Bogoslof and Fire Islands, and, until it cools off, it is impossible to make a landing on it.