Located in Oceania, in the Pacific Ocean, the archipelago of the Solomon Islands is threatened by one of the phenomena that threatens the Earth: climate change and its effect on the rising sea level.
Five small islands in the Pacific have disappeared due to sea level rise and coastal erosion, according to research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Submerged islands are located in the north of the archipelago of the Solomon Islands, where there have been annual sea – level rise of 7 millimeters, more than double the global average. The islands were swallowed by the sea an area of between 1 and 5 hectares and none of them was inhabited. Are (or were) Kale, Rapita, Rehana, Kakatina and Zollies. The last four have vanished between 1962 and 2002, while Kale has recently disappeared.
In addition, six other small islands nearby have lost more than 20% of the area between 1947 and 2014, and in two of them, who were inhabited villages have been destroyed, so its population had to be relocated. In three islands (Hetaheta, Sogomou and Nuatambu) has gone more than 50% of the surface, because of a phenomenon that has accelerated especially since 2002.
