Abanuea

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Abanuea
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Gilbert Islands
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Abanuea (Gilbert Islands)
Abanuea

Abanuea ( Eng : "The Long- Term Beach") is a sunken island that belonged to the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands in the Republic of Kiribati .

geography

Abanuea was a motu of the atoll, which was previously used by fishermen as a landing site. However, she sank in the sea in the 1990s. A similar fate befell Tebua Tarawa in 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiribati: How Real is the Possibility of Relocating an Entire Country? | The Basement Geographer .
  2. ↑ Islands disappear under rising seas BBC 1999-06-14.