2 DECEMBER 2012
President Anote Tong said areas of Kiribati -- consisting of more than 30 coral atolls, most only a few metres (feet) above sea level -- had already been swamped by the rising ocean.
"We've had communities that have had to relocate because their previous village is submerged, it's no longer there," he told AFP in a telephone interview from the capital Tarawa.
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