164 geology of queensland coast, 



The Elevation of Eastern Australia compared with that 

 OF Melanesia and Polynesia. 



In recent times a slight elevation appears to have obtained 

 over the whole eastern coast of Australia, traces of the elevatory 

 movement being recorded at Raine's Islet,* Cooktown,t the 

 islands between Thursday Island and Cairns,; Cape Grafton, 

 Dunk Island, Hinchinbrook, the Palm Islands, Magnetic Island,^ 

 Curtis Island,|l Moreton Bay, ^ the various "coastal plains" of 

 Queensland, Ballina beaches,"*^* Hunter River,tt Port Stephens, 

 Hawkesbur}^ River, Botany Bay, WoUongong;!:! and other places. 



This elevation is, as before remarked, so recent that corals, 

 " beach rock," and plains around small islands have suffered 

 scarcely any disintegration. 



A similarly slight and recent movement of elevation occurred 

 throughout such island groups as the Fijis, Tonga, and the 

 Solomons so recently that raised "lines of marine erosion" left 

 on the clifts in places exist almost in their original integrity, 

 though sometimes 30 feet above H.W.M. So also in certain 

 islands in Fijiv^§ and the Solomons, lilj raised beaches and coral 



* Dr. Alex. Rattray, "Notes on the Geology of Cape York Peninsula," 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxv., 1869. 



+ J. E. T. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v., 1880, pp. 187-189. 



I Jukes, Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly," Vol. i. ; A. Agassiz, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. Harv. Coll. xxviii. 



§ Maitland, "Report on Magnetic Island." Brisbane, 1892; G. Butler, 

 Esq., Townsville. 



li Fidt C. Hedley, 



IT Stutchbury, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Sixteenth Tri-monthly Reports, 

 N.S. Wales Leg. Council Papers, 1854; R. L. Jack, Geology of Queensland, 

 p. 617. 



• • J. E. Carne, Ann. Report Dept. Mines N.S. Wales, 1896, p. 151. 



+t Prof. David and R. Etheridge, Junr., Rec. Geol. Survey N.S. Wales, ii., 

 1890. 



tt Jukes, Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly," Vol. i., p. 336. 



§§ Andrews, "Notes on the Limestones and General Geology of the Fiji 

 Islands/' &c., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. xxxviii., 1900. 

 1111 Guppy, The Solomon Islands : their Geology, &c. 



