Earthquakes Alter
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Coastline Of Malekula
The coastline of Malekula Island, New Hebrides, has risen by as much as three and four feet in places, following the series of earthquakes that shook the group early in August ( PIM, Sept., p. 15).
Captain Harry Kirkwood, master of the RCS Euphrosyne 11, says that ships will have to go carefully in these waters until the anchorages have been re surveyed.
The British Resident Com missioner, Mr. A. M. Wilkie, said after a tour of Malekula at the end of August that stretches of reef and large out crops of coral, which had not previously been exposed, were now standing clear of the water.
On parts of the coast, he added, the sea receded for a considerable distance, leaving sea snakes and a large variety of other marine life stranded in rock pools and on the coral.