clipped from: www.foxnews.com Sunday, December 24, 2006
The remote Lohachara Island was part of the Sundarbans Island Chain near the Bay of Bengal in India. Rising sea levels have swallowed the island whole, according to the report. It was once home to 10,000 people.
Lohachara’s disappearance wasn’t easy to discover. Satellites monitored it until it finally disappeared.
Two-thirds of a neighboring island, Ghoramara, has also been claimed by water.
The disappearance of Lohachara Island comes eight years after uninhabited islands in the Pacific were overtaken. As a result of their going under, the people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been evacuated.
Researchers at Calcutta’s Jadavpur University studying the phenomenon for six years say there are now about a dozen “vanishing islands” in the region.