Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — The New Alaskan Island [ARTICLE]

The New Alaskan Island

In connection with an ea®juuke which shook Unalaska and Dufl | Harbor on September 11 a new Islip has been added to the Bogoslof glup in the Aleutian channel at a point where a sounding last year by the geobglcal survey showed 70 faUxxns of Later. The island is in the form of a threat round hill, Close to Perry peak, an islet that rose year before last.; The famous volcano Bogoslof in the Aleutian islands has again been in eruption. For scores of miles around Unimak island, where Mount SMahaldin has been in eruption for[ five months, the s*ea has been covered with ashes and pumice. In one case the sail of a schooner was set on fire by the hot ashes, The ups and downs of this unstable bit of American territory form one of the most lively geological stories of modern timed, since the first known island on this site rose from the sea in 1796 (and was named Johanna Bogoslof), to be followed in 1826 by Ship Rock, and other volcanic intrusions—Zion’s Herald.