• People used to live and grow food here. Every year the sea washes more of the island away.

2 Halves of Huene

Huene, Carteret Islands. In the last couple of decades Huene has been bisected by the rising seas. The people who live here (on the sandy left part) expect their isalnd to disapper in the next 10 to 15 years.

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