Here are 5 Most Threatened Island Nations Drowning In The World:
1. Kiribati
Country located in Oceania, the Pacific Ocean is predicted as the first country will sink. Approximately 105 thousand people from 33 small island there has been displaced due to start sinking. President of Kiribati, Anote Tong had bought land in the Fiji Islands to evacuate.
But because both are located in the Pacific Ocean are also at high risk of drowning, President Tong finally asked for help New Zealand as a place of refuge. Kiribati is a nation that is at least accounts for carbon pollution, the main cause of global warming, but the most severely affected.
2. Maldives
This island nation located in the southwest of Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean. Super beautiful country is the average land surface has only 1.5 m high above sea level. Currently has about 1,990 small islands and atolls are submerged. Hence, the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, plans to move the country and 350 thousand citizens to Australia because of Maldives has been increasingly difficult to sustain.
3. Ghoramara
Located in South India, rising sea levels globally coupled ice in the Himalayas are melting more and more, making the surface of the water in the Bay of Bengal rose drastically every year. Since 1969, the island has started to sink and reach two thirds in 2006. Until now it is more than seven thousand residents were evacuated.
4. Shishmaref
Shishmaref coastal land disappeared swept waves and sea levels are increasingly rising. The amount of ice that melts also make the soil structure is not stable, so many broken homes. Climate change there is also cause more powerful storms causing erosion that takes up about 38 meters inland.
Although already built a wall to hold back the sea, land area is still losing an average of 3.3 meters per year. As a result nearly 600 people there threatened her life and mostly had to evacuate. Currently out of 213 villages in Alaska, more than 80 percent damaged by the same problem.
5. Tuvalu
Since ten years ago, the government of Tuvalu has asked for help Australia to evacuate 12 thousand inhabitants there. The highest point in this tiny country is only about 4.5 meters. Large islands there submerged in water by half, and the small islands sink. Not tidka perhaps fifty years, Tuvalu stay with a name.