Maldives sink. The maldives are indeed low lying islands with its highest point only reaching about eight feet above sea level. The highest point in the country is only two feet above sea level and 80 of the countrys land is less than three feet below sea level. An inch of sea level rise means life threatening in the years to come.
As it turns out those looking to visit the islands for some much needed rr might want to book their trip sooner. Due to global warming the sea level is gradually rising which could affect not only the stunning maldives but also the arctic and other popular tourist destinations like venice. The island nation of maldives is sinking and the 2004 tsunami which swept across these low lying islands with ease made it very clear.
So says president mohamed nasheed who in october 2009 strapped on scuba gear and held a. Majority of islands in maldives sit only less than a meter to two meters above sea level. But obviously decades old warnings the maldives were on the verge of being swallowed by the seas didnt pan out.
Visit the maldives before it sinks into the ocean the arabian seas archipelago jewel is the lowest nation in the world. The geography and the environment of the maldives is highly sensitive. This is the very reason why soon enough it could disappear from the earth.
The sand gets eroded by the water trees are fallen down from the root. From the march 2011 issue of national geographic traveler the maldives are disappearing into the ocean. A shot of the maldives.
Beach erosion has been happening to many islands of the maldives at least for the past 30 years. The maldives is one of the countries most people want to visit. The maldives is rapidly sinking and could be gone in the next 80 years the pacific islands contain some of the famous idyllic holiday destinations chosen by britons for sun and luxury they could.
While some say that this issue is a hoax a report in october 2018 of the intergovernmental panel on climate change has confirmed that kiribati the maldives tuvalu and marshall islands are about to sink.
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