(#2) Solomon Islands
- Oceania
Entire islands are disappearing in the Pacific Ocean in the Solomon Islands archipelago. Five, in fact, have sank into the ocean in the past seven decades thanks to rising sea levels. And that's not all: the remaining islands (900+) are being swallowed, slowly, by the sea, with six of them losing more than 20% of their surface area in the same time span, forcing generations of families from their homes and damaging local economies.
(#13) Curon Venosta, Italy
Curon Venosta, Italy is another city destroyed in the name of progress: like Bezidu Nou, Romania, and Shi Cheng, China,, Curon Venosta was also doomed by the building of a dam and submerged in an artificial lake (just after World War II, in this case). The big difference? This Italian village was filled with sand first, meaning it was buried and flooded, with only a church's bell tower left as an historic memorial.
(#14) Bezidu Nou, Romania
The Romanian village of Bezidu Nou was flooded in 1988 to make a dam, destroying the town and partially submerging it under the artificial Lake Bezid. Today, only parts of the village's two churches are visible.(#11) Villa Epecuén
Established as a resort town in the 1920s, Villa Epecuen, Argentina, is a perpetually flooded ghost town (population: 1 as of 2011) after an earthen dam burst in 1985. The saltwater has slowly been eating the the abandoned town ever since, with left-behind vehicles, beds, toilets, and other domestic props left to slowly rot. The water began to recede in 2009, exposing the decayed settlement that used to be home for more than 5,000 Argentinians.
(#7) Sarah Ann Island
A small guano-covered island south of Hawaii, Sarah Ann Island "vanished beneath the waves" sometime between 1858 and 1937, when German astronomers tried and failed to find it and establish an observatory in which to better view that year's solar eclipse. Sarah Ann was discovered and claimed by an American "guano firm" that hoped to mine the island's resources (read: bird poop) for saltpeter and fertilizer.(#5) Pavlopetri
Pavlopetri in southern Greece is the oldest submerged city in the world, with ruins dating from 2800 to 1200 BC (archaeologists think the sea slurped it up in 1000 BC). It's considered to be the closest thing to Plato's allegorical Atlantis ever discovered (and it predates the Atlantis tale!).
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