SOME SMALL ISLANDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 234, 26 September 1908, Page 4

SOME SMALL ISLANDS.

That, very latest addition to the British Empire. Coetivv Island, in the. Indian Ocean, is not the smallest single bit of ten-itin-v reigned over by King Edward. It is, for instance, ten times as bi> as Pudding Island, in the Tonga ..ruun. which i* less than a mile in creuiuicrcncr. 'lh,- area of this Utter. tn», is gAidnallv diminishing, owing to tlie'di-int ill ion and subsidence of tincrnl base' on which it -lands. It ;b----vives it. ■•iii-iniis naiiii' from il s striking iv.ei.iblal'lee to the top half 01 a pudding, the barrier reef which entirely .urbasin- , , . Then a"-ain. there i. tsVelnve Island. i„ the South 'Pacific which rise, lorn, tin- centre of a perfectly circular platform to it. hciiihl "f I" feet, in a smooth, rtoiee-shaood hill of polished basalt. e\1K .,1 V ,-ese.„,bliiig a beehive. It- area altogether is less than IJI .ere.. Nevertheless, on the ledge surrounding the inaccessible central dome arc some ■2IHI natives, who support, themselves by lishing. ~ . ~„ ro ,i W ay Island ,s ano her criosl> i„ siiiallness. It is only lift, above the Inter, and measures barely IBHy,K ,n „nc direction by about, eighty in another.