B4A. Fish break off islands. 24.42.

Fish hit the ground, breaking off islands from the main land mass.

Atauru, Atoni, Tlingit.

Malaysiaâ€"Indonesia. Atauru [at first, small islands formed the same land mass as Timor; one day the sea dried up, the fish died, a giant eel remained; he began to crawl on land, eating goats; people set up on it hunting; he returned to the sea, which was filled with water again; began to hit his tail and split the islands from Timor with three blows]: Barroso Duarte 1984:211; atoni [Rote Island was part of Timor; fish (dans-vis) began to dance, made a hole in the surface of the earth, Rote broke away with all the inhabitants; Lis Lahuru Nai La'at killed fish; later, due to these injuries, the water flooded the area; Besi and his sister escaped coconut palm; brother asked his sister for a pin stuck in her hair; said that if the pin came to the ground, they would be saved; a pin thrown into the water swam to the ground; brother and sister went down, walked in shallow waters, reached land, gave birth to four sons]: Middelkoop 1971:447-449.

NW Coast. The Tlingites [it is believed that the Queen Charlotte Islands got their shape from halibut; a fisherman caught a small halibut and took it to his wife; she threw the halibut ashore; it began to grow and fight, It got bigger and more violent; eventually, due to its sheer size, one big island split into two, smaller islands appeared, and people were scattered across the land]: Stewart 1979:76 .