'My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic': life on the Pacific's disappearing islands

[turbinetree]

by Kalolaine Fainu in the Saposa Islands, Papua New Guinea

Francis Tony is buried on an island that is shrinking.

The sea breaks on a shoreline that is now less than five metres away from his simple gravesite on Toruar Island in the Solomon Sea. But his son Christopher Sese says the family have no plans to move Tony’s bones to a new gravesite.

“My father will be like the captain of the Titanic. When Toruar Island goes down, he will go down with it,” he says.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/16/my-father-will-go-down-like-the-captain-of-the-titanic-life-on-the-pacifics-disappearing-islands

[Hekate]

1. The saddest part for me is the soon-disappearance of the island and atoll cultures...

It’s heartbreaking.