Former island
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A former island is a mass of land that was once an
rising sea levels. For example, the New Moor island in Bangladesh existed in the 1970s, but was engulfed by the Bay of Bengal
in 2011.
Examples
- Eldøyane, a partially artificial former island in Norway
- Any of several former Islands in the River Thames, England
- Sevan Island, a former island in Armenia, now a peninsula
- land fill designed by Cornelis Lely
- Sakurajima, a former island now joined to the mainland in Japan
- Mount Muria, now part of Java
- Harriet Island, a former island in the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota, now joined to the mainland of Saint Paul.
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to former islands.
Further reading
- Johnson, H & Kuwahara, S (2016), "Sakurajima: Maintaining an island essence", Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 10, no.1, pp. 48–66.
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