Show ISLAND 7 TURNING OVER six hundred miles long sakhalin island off the northeast coasts ot of siberia Is less than a hundred miles wide at its broadest point from the east the turbulent sea licks it with cold and fierce winds the southwestern part however Is warm er and the climate Is softened by the japan sea geologists maintain that the island Is turning over like a fowl on a spit its eastern shore Is slowly emerging from beneath the water while the western shore sinks under the ocean although the process Is very slow only a few yards in a century it Is eald said that sakhalin has already bee been n twice covered by the ocean and has twice emerged this has been es by the layers of coal a al I 1 terna ted with layers of chalk the island Is moving and occasionally underground thunder shakes the earth vladimir koudrey in asia |