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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Nuatambu Island
| official_name      = Nuatambu
| image_map          =
| mapsize            = 250px
| map_caption        = Location in the Solomon Islands
| pushpin_map        = Solomon Islands
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| pushpin_mapsize    = 250
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Solomon Islands
| coordinates        = {{coord|007|07|26.42|S|157|09|39.99|E|region:SB|display=inline}}
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = [[Solomon Islands]]
| subdivision_type1  = [[Provinces of the Solomon Islands|Province]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Choiseul Province]]
| subdivision_type2  =
| subdivision_name2  =
| population_as_of   = 2024
| population_total   = approximately 25 families
}}
'''Nuatambu''' is an [[island]] in [[Solomon Islands]] in [[Choiseul Province]]. Nuatambu is home to families.<ref name="Guardian_2016-05-10">{{Cite web | title = Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits | work = [[The Guardian]] | date = 10 May 2016 | access-date = 2016-05-10 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pacific-islands-lost-rising-seas-climate-change | quote = One was Nuatambu Island, home to 25 families, which has lost 11 houses and half its inhabitable area since 2011, the research said. }}</ref> In 2021 the island was reported to have been separated into two islands.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://amp.abc.net.au/article/100595288 | title=Pacific youth 'grow up with fear' as climate change threatens their homes and futures - ABC News }}</ref> As of December 2023, it shows up on Google Maps as a contiguous island.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nuatambu · Solomon Islands |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nuatambu/@-7.1282207,157.1641421,16.44z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x68cd59b97ace92ff:0x4327cadb77f15e22!8m2!3d-7.1280556!4d157.1602778!16s/m/05zkqsb?entry=ttu |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=Nuatambu · Solomon Islands |language=en}}</ref>
In 1962, the island had an area of 30,080 square meters. In 2014, the area was measured as 13,980 square meters. The difference has been attributed to the [[Sea level rise|rise in sea level]] due to [[climate change]]. In 2016, ''The Guardian'' reported the island had been diminished by sea level rise and wave action.<ref name="Guardian_2016-05-10"/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Albert|first1=Simon|title=Interactions between sea-level rise and wave exposure on reef island dynamics in the Solomon Islands|journal=Environmental Research Letters|volume=11|issue=5|pages=054011|publisher=IOP Publishing|doi=10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054011|year=2016|bibcode=2016ERL....11e4011A |doi-access=free}}</ref>
== Impact of sea-level rise on Nuatambu ==
Five reef islands in the Solomon Islands have been completely submerged due to rising sea levels, while an additional six islands have experienced severe coastal erosion.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Nicola |last2=Piringi |first2=Charley |date=2023-05-11 |title=These islands are being slowly swallowed by the sea – it’s a warning to the world |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/climate-change-soloman-islands-rising-sea-levels/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> These lost islands varied in size from one to five hectares and were characterized by dense tropical vegetation that had thrived for at least 300 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal |url=https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/solomon-islands/impacts-sea-level-rise |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org |language=en}}</ref>
Nuatambu Island, which was once home to 35 families, has seen over half of its habitable area eroded away, with 75% of its houses destroyed by the sea since 2011<ref>{{Cite web |last=Faculty |first=UQ, Engineering, Architecture and IT |title=Rising seas stealing back Solomon Islands communities |url=https://stories.uq.edu.au/shorthand-uq/eait/ingenuity/rising-seas-stealing-back-solomon-islands-communities/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=shorthand.uq.edu.au}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.laurusupportingministry.org/nuatambu.html Nuatambu Village]
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