ISLAND VOLCANO.
' ! r Captain W. Ross, of the schooner Ysa- I bel, which arrived at Nukualofa, on October 22. reported that the volcano j j on the Island of Tofoa in the northern | t part of the Friendly Group, was again !1 in active eruption. The Ysa bel passed s within '!') miles of the volcano. The sky ; j was red with lucent glare from the ' J crater, and the rumblings were quite j J plainly heard. Mr. Boult. engineer of the Ferro-Con- j crete Company, who is an experienced | geologist, visited the vicinity of the vol- t y cano subsequently, ami found that three ; p new cones had been formed on the top ' c of the crater. The craters are discharg- [ I; ing with a cretit noise, and streams ot i molten lava are flowing into the lake in s the old crater, causing clouds ot" steam I. to rise. | * !
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19061108.2.21
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 261, 8 November 1906, Page 3
Word Count
150ISLAND VOLCANO. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 261, 8 November 1906, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in