Show disappearance of an island it I 1 Expedition island Wand is i 4 no me more your map shows she it lying on the northwest 1 coast of australia about twenty two miles from the mainland when it flourished in all its glory as it has since time out of memory it was a beautiful tract of land thirteen miles long and one a and nd a half to two miles broad the swedish trader La emstrom visited it early in the spring of iso 1893 2 and the 1 dutch naturalism naturalists natura lists aliM of the gathered rare botanical specimens and collected many hundred sets of eggs to say nothing of the many many other objects ob jefta of natural history histo ry luring thin the months of may and june last year A vessel was sailing in those parts quite recently when the officers remarked the absence of the islands island the captain ordered I 1 that soundings soun aings be I 1 made all aro around u ad thousands of feet of W water iter was found finally upon observing that there were no signs of breakers on the former site of th the island eisland be ordered that they sau sail directly V iacross across where the island had bad form formerly j erl been soundings were again again taken which resulted in finding that the island had h ad only punk eunk to a depth of forty eight feet below the su surface it was one of the largest islands on the australian boasi coast andeits and its sudden subsidence is a mystery |