I was tootling around the internet reading articles and looking at pictures of this new island. (I'm a bit of plate tectonics nerd). Anyway here's a picture and a link to an article from the New York post that made me chuckle. Can you guess what amused me?
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How small do they think Wales is?
How small do they think Wales is?
I read about this yesterday 
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
I think it was the area of the mainland they were saying was the size of Wales,
"Baluchistan provinceâs Awaran district â a dirt-poor expanse of land that is roughly the size of Wales."
I also thought it was funny that they said the other island disappeared ....I don't think I would risk having a * nosey* around that one
It was several weeks/months before the other one disappeared, so I think having a quick nosey would be safe enough.
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
I think it was the area of the mainland they were saying was the size of Wales,
"Baluchistan provinceâs Awaran district â a dirt-poor expanse of land that is roughly the size of Wales."
We could send the Welsh
*boom boom*
They've lost the Welsh vote
I was tootling around the internet reading articles and looking at pictures of this new island. (I'm a bit of plate tectonics nerd). Anyway here's a picture and a link to an article from the New York post that made me chuckle. Can you guess what amused me?
Oh, all you plate tectonic nerds need to get a life, you lot get everywhere.
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
Does that mean it's an undiscovered island? a new country...we could take over there and stake our claim. 
Video Island.
Saint's Sanctuary
I think it's great to be alive at such a momentous moment where the map of the earth changes and has to be updated.
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
Does that mean it's an undiscovered island? a new country...we could take over there and stake our claim.
Video Island.
Oh that would be brilliant! Lets set sail tomorrow and claim it.
I think it's great to be alive at such a momentous moment where the map of the earth changes and has to be updated.
I do too. Like I said I'm a plate tectonics nerd, I love the everything about how the lands of our earth about.
I'll tell you what got me so interested. The boyfriend I had when I was 17 was revising for his A levels and I helped him revise. I probably learned more doing his geography revision than he did. I just found it fascinating.
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
Does that mean it's an undiscovered island? a new country...we could take over there and stake our claim.
Video Island.
Have you heard of Ferdinandea? This story reminded me of it.
It's a submerged volcanic island off Sicily. Every so often an eruption causes it break the surface, then erosion submerges it again. In 1831 it erupted, and we Brits (of course) claimed the resulting island as "Graham Island". However the Sicilians also claimed it as Ferdinandea, and there was a big dispute over this small lump of basalt until it sunk again. It was thought that there'd be another eruption in 2000, so Italian divers placed a flag on its (submerged) top in preparation - but the eruption never came (well, not yet anyway...)
I think it's great to be alive at such a momentous moment where the map of the earth changes and has to be updated.
But when it sinks again think of all the rows there'll be about all the wasted money making new maps!
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
Does that mean it's an undiscovered island? a new country...we could take over there and stake our claim.
Video Island.
Have you heard of Ferdinandea? This story reminded me of it.
It's a submerged volcanic island off Sicily. Every so often an eruption causes it break the surface, then erosion submerges it again. In 1831 it erupted, and we Brits (of course) claimed the resulting island as "Graham Island". However the Sicilians also claimed it as Ferdinandea, and there was a big dispute over this small lump of basalt until it sunk again. It was thought that there'd be another eruption in 2000, so Italian divers placed a flag on its (submerged) top in preparation - but the eruption never came (well, not yet anyway...)
I'd love an island of my own, just me and my monkey friends swinging in the trees.
We Brits have a great (or not so great depending on your point of view lol) tradition of claiming all manner of islands throughout the world....I'd love to have been an explorer in the old days.
* dirt poor island! the size of Wales* ?
Does that mean it's an undiscovered island? a new country...we could take over there and stake our claim.
Video Island.
Oh that would be brilliant! Lets set sail tomorrow and claim it.
What would the new flag of the new island be? how about a monkey holding a VCR.?
