Carteret Islands

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The Carteret Islands (also Kilinailau or Tulun Islands called ) Han, Huene, Jangain, Yesila, Iolassa and Piul belonging to Papua New Guinea and are located 86 km north-east of Bougainville in the Pacific. Administratively, they are part of the atoll Local Level Government of North Bougainville District in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

The atoll consists of low, a maximum of 1.5 m located above sea islands and extends a horseshoe shape around 30 km in north-south direction; the total land area is 1.6 km ². 2006 there were 2,600 people on the islands.

The islands were named after the British navigator and explorer Philip Carteret, who discovered it in 1767 on his journey with the sloop Swallow.

Han is the largest island and is located with the other smaller islands in the hem of the reef surrounding the lagoon. On the west side ( lagoon side ) of Han is the atoll capital Weteili. On Han, there are palm trees, but are dying due to the flooding with salt water soon.

" Sinking Islands "

Since November 2005 it has been reported worldwide that the Carteret Islands are uninhabitable for the foreseeable future, it was estimated that they were completely flooded in 2015. The islanders have been fighting for more than 20 years against the rising ocean, they built levees and planted mangroves, but are washed away their homes, destroyed the vegetable gardens and spoiled the fresh water sources by storms and floods. Huene was talking about resettlement of residents by rising sea levels already in two pieces zerteilt.Seit 2007. The self-help organization Tulele Peisa founded by the islanders began with the settlement of individual residents on a identified by the Catholic Church are available site on Bougainville. Multiple promised government resettlement measures have not been implemented.

In 1999 there were two uninhabited islands of Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati, Tarawa and Tebua Abanuea, lost in the ocean.

Discussion

The cause of the flooding of the islands could be the destruction of the reefs that surround the Carteret Islands, by fishing with dynamite be guessed Fred Terry, director of the United Nations Development Project of Bougainville. " During the Civil War to Bougainville people fleeing the conflict in the Carteret Islands ," Terry said. " The islanders had to cater for all these extra eaters and needed more fish. You have often destroyed the reef in the past. " A German group of journalists and filmmakers visited the islands in 2008. Hold this justification for credibility. The residents do not fish with dynamite with certainty. There are only two motor boats except the outrigger canoes. One for transport, one is the priest John Bosco Kenzie. Even Paul Tobasi, the chief of the district of the Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville -, denies that the reefs were destroyed by dynamite. Tobasi, regional environmentalist groups, and many NGOs are sure that global warming is the cause of the flooding of the islands.

As another possible cause of plate tectonics is seen. The islands are located in one of the most complex tectonic areas in the world. It was joined in a subduction zone along the New Britain - Bougainville Trench the Pacific Plate, the Australian Plate and the South Bismarck plate together parts of the oceanic plate is pushed down.