Iu 1912 there occurred, on the Alaskan Peninsula one of tho greatest volcanic outbursts on record. Mount Ivatmai, n peak 7500 feet high, exploded. The noiso it made was heard 750 miles, away. Intense darkness, black as midnight in the daytime, prevailed over-a vast aren. lasting for sixty hours at Kodiak, 100 miles sway. Sulphurous fumes weio dis tinguished in Paget Sound, 1500 miles from the burning mountain.: All. vegetation was annihilated, and bears, rabbits, caribou and other , animals went blind. More than ,40 per cent, of the people of Great Britain could not write their name when Queen Victoria ascended the throne. Tho Shah of Persia possesses''perhaps the must valuable pipe in the world.. It ?s tho Persian official pipe,, and is smoked only on State occasion?, It is set with rubies and diamonds, and is valued at £100,000. '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19200424.2.55
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140Untitled Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. 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.
Log in