PlayCarteret Islands in danger
Published: Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:00AM
The tiny, remote Carteret Islands in the South Pacific are home to little more than 1,000 people but global warming is rapidly affecting on their lives.
The inhabitants are among the first to pay the price for global warming as their islands disappear beneath rising sea levels.
The Carterets – part of Papua New Guinea – are now being evacuated before they are submerged completely
The islands, named after the British navigator Philip Carteret who discovered them in 1767, have a maximum elevation of 1.5m above sea level.
Islanders have fought a 20-year battle against the rising ocean but their land is expected to be fully submerged by 2015.
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