San Juan Record | 1935-03-28 | Page 6 | Island "Turning over"

1 A A 7 ISLAND S AND Pr TURNING OVER i I 1 six six hundred wiles long sakhalin Sak halin islands island on off the northeast coasts of i siberia Is 1 less than a hundred miles wide at t its iti broadest point from the th east the turbulent licks lick it with cold and fierce alerce winds wind the southwestern part however Is warmer and the tha climate Is softened by th the japan sea geologists maintain mainwal it that the island Is turning aver over like a fowl on a spit its if eastern shore Is slowly emerging from beneath the water while the western shore sinks under the ocean although the process Is ver very s slow ow only a tew few yards tn in a century it Is said that sakhalin Sak halin has already been twice covered by the ocean and bag baa C twice emerged this has been established by the layers of coal alternated terna ted with layers of chalk the island Is moving and occasionally underground thunder shakes the earth vladimir coudrey in asia aga