According to M. Vélain, the island originally rose above the ocean as a mass of rhyolithic trachyte similar to that which still forms the Nine Pin rock to the north of the entrance to the crater.

For instance, materialistic, vitalistic, logicistic, socialistic, economistic, ethicistic, etc., life and world views.

‘I was nearly a doctor,’ she said. ‘Fair dinkum?’ ‘Dinky-di.’

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