Indonesia counts its islands before it's too late
China Daily | Updated: 2007-05-18 06:53
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An aerial view of an Indonesian island which is almost submerged by rising sea levels in Riau province. Reuters |
From coral-fringed atolls to jungle-clad volcanoes thrusting up from the ocean, its chains of islands sprinkled along the equator make up the world's biggest archipelago.
Officially there are about 17,000 islands, but that number may drop as one minister fears hundreds of islands might vanish because of rising sea levels from global warming.
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