How do living things reach a new island?
Every few yeaxs, a brand new island rises up from the ocean. At first the bare earth is washed by tides and perhaps strewn with seashells. But some years later, the place is populated with a wide variety of plants and animals, including palms, buds, insects and maybe even monkeys. This is mysterious when the island is miles ¬perhaps hundreds of miles from any other land. The noisiest event in modern times occured in August, 1883. It was a volcanic eruption on an island in the sundra sea between the larger islands of java, and sumatra. The volcano Krakatau b1ew its top, and it is estimated that a cubic mile of debris was exp10ded into the atmosphere. The thundering roar of the explosion was heard hundrededs of miles away. The shock waves traveled several times around the earth. All living things on the Island of Krakatau vere destroyed some by explosion, some by seething lava and volcanic dust. The ashy remains vere swept far out to sea by a monstrous tidal wave. When the eruption was o
