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travel
news review
9
March '99
A new study by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO) has revealed a dramatic increase in the vulnerability
of hundreds of islands in South Pacific due to rising sea levels. As worldwide
greenhouse emissions contribute to sea level rise, continually increasing
levels of emissions could be devastating for many South Pacific islands,
some of which are now no more than 1.5m (5 ft) above sea level. The study
calls on developing nations to make substantial cuts to their emission
levels to ensure the survival of these smaller low-lying Pacific Islands.
18
February '99
Researchers from Australia's James Cook University have located one of
the cannons from the HMS Bounty near Pitcairn Island. In 1789 a mutiny
aboard the Bounty on its return voyage to Britain saw the captain of the
ship, William Bligh, and 18 crew members set adrift on the ship's launch.
The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian returned to Tahiti, where they
had just spent six long and languorous months. Christian, half the mutineers,
and 18 Tahitians fled Tahiti on board the Bounty to the then uninhabited
Pitcairn Island where they settled.
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