Show 3 of en an fiand fIa nl expedition island la Is no more your map show sit s it lying on the coast of australia about twenty two vj mile from the mainland 1 when it flourished in nil all its glo glorias ryas it h ass ss s 1 time out of cf M e ory it was a t rat of nf land thirteen mile lonz ions n nil nd one and ohalf a half to t avo 0 miles broad th i r swedish trader La emstrom i kited visited i it t early il in tho the spring of 1892 2 and the dutch naturalists natura lists of the gathered ered rare botanical specimens and collected many hundred sets of eggs to say of the many other objects i of natural history during the mouths months of may and june last year A v vessel essel was sailing in those parts quite r recent I 1 lyuben y when the officers remarked t the lie ah ab pence of the island the captain ordered ii that soundings be made all around thousands of feet of water was found finally upon observing that there re were no signs of breakers on the I 1 form former er site of the island he ordered that they sail directly across where the island had formerly been soundings were again taken which resulted in finding that the island had only sunk to a depth of orty eight feet below the surface durei it was one of the largest est islands on the au australian coast and its sudden subsidence is a mystery |