List of submerged islands and islets

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With the present Global Warming trend, islands and islets that are hardly above the sea will begin to become submerged and this List of islands & islets now submerged is designed to include those such islands/islets in the world which are now submerged or likely to become submerged. It includes all islands and banks where the highest point used to be less than 10 metres.

We already know of the existing shipping hazards such as the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel where an annual short game of cricket is traditionally played at low tide. The sands are up to 2 m above water at low tide and 4 m below at high tide.

We also know of the massive tidal differences (tidal bore) existing in Fundy Bay, Canada and the British Channel Isles.

The island of Herm in the Bailiwick of Guernsey is said to treble in size at low tide (the second largest tidal range in the world) between 0.2 meters and exceeding 12 meters during a spring tide,

One of the most endangered islets is Mopion in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines which barely peeps out above the water but does have a permanent structure on it in the form of a sun shade.

Some candidates from List of islands by highest point:

Maldives; Villingili in the Seenu Atoll - highest point 2.3 m

Tokelau; Nukunonu - highest point 5 m

Tuvalu; Funafuti - highest point 5 m

Cocos (Keeling) Islands; West Island - highest point 5 m

Eritrea; Dahlak Kebir - highest point 5 m

Marshall Islands; Likiep - highest point 10 m

[edit] External links

North Atlantic - British Isles and Europe

• BBC.co.uk "Coast" report with cricketers on the Goodwin Sands The TV crew had to be sea-rescued due to rising tides.
• Photo of soccer on the Goodwin Sands
• Herm Island homepage
• Picture of Herm beach at low tide

North Atlantic - North America

• New Brunswick - Saint John River and the Reversing Falls
• St. John River watershed map and information
• Canadian Council for Geographic Education page with a series of articles on the history of the St. John River
• A book covering the St. John River with full color photos
• Real-time river flow at the upstream most gage, Dickey, Maine, or St. Clair, New Brunswick.
• The Upper St. John River Valley history and genealogy

North Atlantic - Caribbean and Latin America

• AeroClubSXM has an excellent aerial shot of Mopion and its "permanent structure"
• Gouldhome report and location map also more photos.

Indian Ocean

• The Maldives Photo