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East Island has vanished after coming into contact with Hurricane Walaka, an intense storm that hit Hawaii earlier this month
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Hawaiian island erased by powerful hurricane: 'the loss is a huge blow' (Original Post)
turbinetree
Oct 2018
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KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)1. Thanks, Turbinetree! More to read here....
Hawaiian island erased by powerful hurricane: The loss is a huge blow
East Island has vanished after coming into contact with Hurricane Walaka, an intense storm that hit Hawaii earlier this month
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/24/hawaiian-island-erased-by-powerful-hurricane
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Sad, but Mother Nature having her way....... ......
East Island has vanished after coming into contact with Hurricane Walaka, an intense storm that hit Hawaii earlier this month
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/24/hawaiian-island-erased-by-powerful-hurricane
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East Island was, at around half a mile long and 400ft wide, the second largest island in the the French Frigate Shoals, an atoll in the far western reaches of the Hawaiian archipelago. Until 1952, it hosted a US Coast Guard radar station.
Despite its size, the island played an important role for wildlife, including the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal, a species that numbers just 1,400 individuals, with many of the seals raising their young on East Island. Green sea turtles, which are also threatened, and seabirds such as albatrosses, which often had their young preyed upon by circling tiger sharks, also depended on the island. The loss is a huge blow, Fletcher said. Little did we know it could disappear so quickly.
Despite its size, the island played an important role for wildlife, including the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal, a species that numbers just 1,400 individuals, with many of the seals raising their young on East Island. Green sea turtles, which are also threatened, and seabirds such as albatrosses, which often had their young preyed upon by circling tiger sharks, also depended on the island. The loss is a huge blow, Fletcher said. Little did we know it could disappear so quickly.
Sad, but Mother Nature having her way....... ......
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)3. Your welcome
Submariner
(12,504 posts)2. It's fascinating that once upon a time that island was volcanic and maybe the size of the current
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Big Island of Hawaii, until it shrunk to Maui's size, then shrunk more to Kauai's size, and after all that erosion and shrinkage, we're here for that 'blink in the eye of time' to witness it's disappearance as a sandbar being over topped by ocean waves.
And we humanoids can take credit for speeding up that shrinkage process by a century or so...... USA... USA... USA.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)4. Yepper, spot on.....................
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)5. Remember that all of the Hawaiian Islands
were formed by shield volcanic hot spots, NOT by upthrusting continental drift of tectonic plates.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)6. Yepper, spot on.................