Posted on 11/08/2023 1:26:11 PM PST by Red Badger
Ping!.................
The sea level is falling.
They have a new place to drop those who follow below their minimum social credit score. Caldera needs to be fed
What this country needs are more MAGAmatic eruptions !!!
Can’t be. Sea is rising due to climate change.
Beat me to it!
Great pic!!! Surabachi where the flag was raised, in the background.
That’s how those islands got there in the first place.
Make up your mind. Either it's underwater or it's an island. It can't be both.
When I was a kid I remember a story about an island being formed off of some South American country. Big celebration, officials planted a flag, etc. Then a few days later another eruption and it was gone.
No idea if it was true or not but great story.
Go go Godzilla.
5.56mm
“China will claim it’s theirs”
I was just thinking how long it would be before the Chinese build a base there?
The island of Iwojima had its name changed??
Probably already trying to put an outpost there...
China probably has naval base on it already.
Google Earth has 8/17/2022 satellite photo that shows a bit of smoke rising from that same spot. No island visible.
Not exactly changed. From Wikipedia:
The original records of De la Torre's 1543 expedition have been lost,[5] but he does not appear to have separately named Iwo Jima,[6] despite later sources sometimes miscrediting him with the name Sulfur or Sulphur Island (orig. Isla Sufre or de Sufre). Instead, he seems to have only named the Volcano Islands as a group (orig. Balcones)[6] after an eruption—probably on South Iwo Jima—active as his ship passed through the area.[7]
Other Spanish explorers may have named or renamed the island in the years afterward.[8] Certainly, John Gore was aware of Spanish accounts of the area with him[7] when he visited in 1779 and recorded its English name as Sulphur Island.[9]
The name was subsequently calqued into Late Middle Japanese with the Sino-Japanese form and pronunciation Iwōtō or Iwō-tō (硫黄島, イヲウトウ, "Sulfur Island"), still used by the control tower for the remaining airport. In the past this was also sometimes romanized as Iwautau.[10] The native Japanese reading of the same character 島 is shima (leading to the English misreading Iwo Shima), which typically shifts to jima when prefixed by another character. This version is the origin of the English names Iwojima, Iwo-jima,[11] and Iwo Jima, with many variant pronunciations including /ˌiːwoʊˈdʒiːmə/ and /ˌiːwəˈdʒiːmə/.[12][13][14][15] This archaic or mistaken form of the Japanese name was particularly reinforced by its use by the Japanese naval officers who arrived to fortify the island ahead of US invasion during the Second World War.[11]
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