Nov 9 2023 - New Islands

 

What questions will we ask today?  Is it going to rain and I should take an umbrella?  Are the bananas ripe enough or too ripe at the store?   We're supposed to be asking these questions: How am I feeling right now?  What are my needs today?  What am I grateful for today?  and so on.   Instead, my question today is how many new islands are there that have created by volcanos, erosion, glacial retreat and such occurrences?  How big are they?   Wikipedia has a list of islands created since the 20th century.  They are HERE,  Tonga has a lot of them, with listings from 2022, 2014, 2009, 2006,1984, and 1927-28.   Home Reef is one of the the volcanoes that gives forth all these islands in Tonga which is located in the South Pacific Ocean. "A big chunk of the Polynesian nation — an archipelago of over 170 islands — owes its existence to volcanic activity, which created its chain of western islands starting thousands of years ago." In December 2014 and January 205, a volcanic island 1 km wide by 2 km long was created.  In 2022, just 11 hours after the volcanic eruption began, a new island had appeared.  It had grown to 8 acres and an elevation over 50 feet above sea level. It might live a short time or a long time according to experts.

Here's Toronto's skyline seen from one of the Toronto Islands.  Their history is a story of wind and sand, depositing the sand into the bay, and eventually taking the shape of a peninsula.  They started history as a series of continuously moving sand-bars originating from the Scarborough Bluffs, and carried westward by Lake Ontario Currents. It was in 1858 that the channel was widened by a permanent storm, making them the Toronto Islands. Like a volcano, Lake Ontario is a busy lake.  Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com