15 APRIL 2013
Out on the equator lies a threadbare nation of 33 squat islands and wispy atolls that trails 5,000 kilometres west across the Pacific; Kiribati is an unbounded oceanic territory of warming and rising seas, shrinking landfalls and dwindling fresh water. The living are being told to leave. There is no more room for the dead.
Pockmarking the beaches of Tarawa, the atoll on which most of Kiribati’s inhabitants live, are the shell-blasted Japanese bunkers and rust-twisted bones of American landing craft from the last World War.
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Source:The Global Mail