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Marshall Islands 65 images Created 11 Jan 2018

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  • A cemetery that has been badly hit by high tides and storm surges crumbles into the ocean beach on Majuro Atoll, July, 2009.
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  • A young woman leans on a shop window in Majuro, Marshall Islands.
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  • A flame tree shades the front of a church in Majuro, Marshall Islands.
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  • Religion is an important part of Marshallese culture. Women gather in church on Sunday.
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  • A mother and child attend a Sunday church service on Majuro Atoll.
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  • Shorelines are undercut by rising tides and changing currents in many areas of the Marshall Islands.
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  • An island seems to float on the far side of Jaluit Lagoon in the Marshall Islands.
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  • From the air the islands that make up Jaluit Atoll are simply slivers of land in the Pacific. Marhsall Islands, Micronesia.
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  • A young boy stands on a sea wall and gazes out at the ocean on Jaluit Atoll.
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  • A Marshallese woman picks her way along the edge of the ocean side reef on Jaluit Atoll, collecting shellfish as the tide changes and begins to wash shells ashore. With a mean sea level of just 2 metres, the Marshall Islands are at severe risk from sea level rise.
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  • A twisted tree grows along a narrow part of Jaluit Island, facing the ocean-side waves of Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands
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  • A Marshall Island woman walks carefully along the far edge of the ocean-side reef amidst rolling waves, Jaluit, Marshall Islands.
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  • A rusted battleship -- a rememant of the Pacific War -- rusts slowly into the Jaluit Lagoon at Imej, Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
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  • A Japananese bunker from the Pacific War crumbles amongs palm trees on Imej Island, Jaluit Atoll, the Marshall Islands.
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  • A small shops offer  clothing and imported foods for sale throughout the Marshall Islands.
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  • A lagoon-side cafe in Jabor, Jaluit Atoll, serves coffee and offers a place to sit. In places with high population densities, people build into the lagoon, using sea walls to protect against the waves. In the face of increasing tropical storms and sea level rise, these sea walls prove ineffective.
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  • Tapping palm sap for a refreshing drink on Jaluit Atoll.
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  • A Marshall Islander walks his bicycle on the narrow road that forms a causeway between Jaluit Atoll's main town of Jabor and the local airstrip.
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  • Jaluit Atoll's ocean beach on a stormy day, Marshall Islands.
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  • A Marshallese boy sits on the pier at Jabor, Jaluit Atoll, backed by the startling blue-green of the tropical sea.
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  • This resident of Jaluit Atoll is a keen gardener.
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  • A traditional Marshallese Meal of rice with coconut and a whole cooked fish.
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  • Pandanus fruit is a staple of the traditional Marshall Islands diet, providing essential vitamins.
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  • Three young women on Jaluit Atoll, looking towards the lagoon.
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  • A Marshalles woman sits by the door of her house in Jabor, Jaluit.
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  • In low-lying coastal areas rising tides often undercut the shallow root system of coconut palms.
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  • The sunset tints the tropical clouds pink and orange over the palms and pandanus trees of Majuro Atoll's Eneko Island in the Marshall Islands.
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  • The pristine white sand beach at Majuro Atoll's Eneko Island,  in the Marshall Islands.
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  • The tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean flow into the Majuro Lagoon at high tide near Eneko Island.
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  • Fallen palms on the lagoon beach mark changing tides and sea level rise on the low-lying atolls of the Marshall Islands.
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  • The far side of the Majuro lagoon is marked by the lights of Majuro, as seen before dawn from Eneko Island, Marshall Islands.
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  • Sunrise over the islands of Majuro Atoll, July 2009.
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  • A girl swims in the shallows at Laura Beach, Majuro, Marshall Islands. Most Marshall Islanders are at home in the waters which surround the low atolls which make up the stunningly beautiful country.
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  • Lee, a local Marshall Islander, pilots his motor boat past the decaying wreck of a Pacific War Battleship in Jaluit Lagoon.
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  • A traditional outrigger sailing canoe crosses the horizon in Jaluit Lagoon.
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  • On the ocean side of the poorer areas of Majuro Atoll, high tides encroach on houses, ineffectually blocked by home-made sea wall. Fallen palms litter the shoreline, July 2009.
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  • A small boy stands at the base of two palm trees on Laura beach, Majuro Atoll, looking out to sea.
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  • Sea walls in Majuro protect houses from the more placid waters of the lagoon.
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