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Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1898, Vol. 54 Thus there is left a great plateau, including the Tongan and Fijian groups, having a northward extension of 4 to 5 of latitude with a depth not greater than 1500 fathoms in a general depth of 2000 to 3000 fathoms. Its breadth north of and including Tonga is about while in lat. 9 to 13 8. It has a westward extension to join the plateau on which the Santa Cruz and Solomon groups lie. Between lets. 10 and 13 8. Are on this plateau no less than ten islands, or shallow shoals. They are, from east to west, the Rookh Bank, Uea or Wallis Island, the Waterwitch Bank, the Isabella Bank, the Coombe Bank, Rotuma, the Alexa Bank, and three other banks mentioned by Admiral Wharton.' Oi these Uea and Rotuma are high islands while all the rest, with the possible exception of the Rookh Bank, are atoll-shaped shoals, with only a few fathoms of water over their rims. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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