I claim this island in ze name of Spain!
No! I claim zis island in the name of France!
Posted on 09/24/2013 11:22:21 AM PDT by Rusty0604
As reported earlier, Pakistan and India were both shaken by a strong 7.8 magnitude earthquake with numerous aftershocks. While the damage and the casualties from the quake are not fully known yet although according to Raza news agency the latest death toll is at 45, one quite stunning development has emerged, quite literally, out of the sea. As Pakistani's The News reports, an entire island emerged off the country's Gwadar coast in the aftermath of the quake. "According to DIG Gwadar Moazzam Jah, the island's altitude is 20 to 40 feet and width around 100 feet. Talking to Geo news, the DIG said that the island emerged at a distance of 350 feet in the sea from the Gwadar coast." We hope this is not some very elaborate mass media hoax.
The local Tribune (with various other media confirming too just in case this is some very elaborate media hoax) adds more:
On the Gwadar coastline, the quake created a small island about half a mile into the sea near an area called ‘Jhanda’, according to Express News.
The newly appearing island is said to have a mountainous terrain rising up to a hundred feet. A large crowd was seen gathering at the site to see the new island.
What is curious is that the shocking formation is quite close to the border with Iran, and in close proximity to the Gulf of Oman, best known as the favorite anchoring spot of US Aircraft Carriers patrolling the Straits of Hormuz.
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How long until US military claims this new rock as a new naval base which just happens to be in close proximity to Iran's eastern maritime border?
Photo and video here:
The USA should claim it as terra nova.
Make a great base in the Gulf of Oman.
Maybe the Palestinians will claim it as theirs. /s
There is precedent. The “Guano Islands Act” of 1856 led to the claiming of Midway island. All we need is one seabird there to ...
“Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other Government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States...”
Well, I guess that puts to rest the old saying that real estate is a good investment because they aren’t making any more land.
I claim this island in ze name of Spain!
No! I claim zis island in the name of France!
Since we are still paying Lois Lerner her IRS pension, she could be re-activated out of retirement and sent there to be the guano generator.
Rising sea levels caused by Global Warming should make the island be back under water in a month or two.
It’s already been claimed by China as its territorial waters.
That thing look highly unstable. Put too many people on it and it might tip over.
Maaaaan, that language is tough on the ears.
Maaaaan, that language is tough on the ears.
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Well , I guess we know what one person speaking sounds like, imagine a whole roomful! Buahahahahahaha!Give me Yiddish or Hebrew any day.
Maybe this will begin WWIII
Sounds like she’s nagging somebody.
What seems to have happened is that a neck of land got separated from the land and became an island.
In the book “Footsteps of Alexander the Great” Michael Wood points out that this bit of land was talked about by the Greeks on their way back to Persia from India.
interesting
"On the Gwadar coastline, the quake created a small island about half a mile into the sea near an area called ‘Jhanda’, according to Express News.
Look closely at the picture...I can see trees...
Things grow fast under water in the Gulf of Oman
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