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How a Phantom Island Appeared, Vanished, Then Reappeared in Different Location
BC Hydro said the tree-covered mass likely formed from decades of logs and debris, and it has urged people to stay off the unstable island.
- On Wednesday, BC Hydro officials announced the floating island was found resting against the shoreline on the Ospika Arm of Williston Reservoir, approximately 20 miles from its last known location.
- The reservoir is at its highest level in 14 years due to heavy snowpack and rain, potentially lifting the island from shore; Geologist John Joseph Clague noted accumulated logs and debris form such vegetated mats.
- Measuring approximately 460 feet long and 230 feet wide, the island spans roughly 105,500 square feet; BC Hydro Community Relations Manager Bob Gammer verified the landmass through satellite imagery and observations.
- Gammer warns people to stay off the island, describing it as a "delicate, thin layer of logs" that is naturally unstable and unsafe to climb onto or land boats on.
- "Finding the island has answered one question, but it has raised several others," Gammer said; the discovery resembles other floating bogs like Wisconsin's Forty Acre Bog documented in recent years.
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