ELEVATIONS IN PACIFIC CORAL REGIONS. ~ 
383 
FEET, 
Sandwich Islands. Kauai . 1 or 2 
66 2 Oahu . 25 to 60 
‘“ é“ Molokai . La 300 ? 
“ 66 DU GUT, Fat I eae a 12 
Gilbert Islands Tapateuea se 3 2 or 3 
6 “6 Nonouti, Kuria, Maiana and 
Tarawa . 3 or more. 
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é «“ Apaiang or Charlotte 6 or 7 
‘ ‘“ Marakei . . 3 or more. 
‘“ «“ THOTT PANE By g Salear seed come Ua ? 
Carolines IMO Naki si ihae feted sol ot teen cles 60 
Ladrones Guam . 600 
«“ Rota 600 
Feis . Sie 90 
Pelews . . 10 to 300 
New Hebrides ... . several elevations. 
Loyalty Islands, one island s 250 
Solomon Islands, some islands - 100 to 1,200 
Bonin Group, Peel Island 40-50 
Several deductions are at once obvious : — 
1. That the elevations have taken place in all parts of 
the ocean. 
2. That they have in some instances affected single islands, 
and not those adjoining. Metia is 250 feet high, and yet the 
other Paumotus in that part of the archipelago, and also the 
Tahitian Islands, have been but little, or not at all, elevated. 
3. That the amount is often very unequal in adjacent 
islands. 
4. That in a few instances the change has been experienced 
by a whole group or chain of islands. The Gilbert Group is 
an instance, and the rise appears to increase from the south- 
ernmost island to Apaiang, and then to diminish again to the 
other extremity. 
The Feejees may be an example of a rise at the west side 
