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“A Lake in Canada Got a Mysterious New Island.”
“Then, It Disappeared—and Now It’s Back The floating forest appeared in a well-mapped reservoir in British Columbia.”
“Bob Gammer, a spokesperson for B.C.”
“He notes to the Guardian that the base is probably a “delicate, thin layer of logs.” “It’s just naturally unstable,” Gammer tells the Canadian Press.”
“Fun fact: Bog pushers The floating “islands”—technically, bogs—in Lake Chippewa often drift toward a bridge.”
“The mass—full of trees, birds and other animals—puzzled locals, who had never come across it before, and it was not on any maps.”
“As the materials gradually decomposed, plants and trees took root and created a habitat.”
“So nearly every year, locals use boats to push the navigational hazards away from the structure.”
“A huge, forested island was floating in British Columbia’s Williston Lake, one of the largest human-made reservoirs in the world.”
“Hydro found it floating nearly 20 miles northwest of its original location.”
“But just days ago, on August 31, B.C.”