The island of the Pacific Ocean

An island in the middle of the Pacific has been swept away in the last century and is now revived.

Dr. Murray Ford and Auckland University Professor Paul Kench studied aerial imagery of islands from 1945-2010 and discovered a new island formed on a part of Marshall Islands first. that.

It is a coral island called Nadikdik , also known as Knox Atoll , is the southernmost atoll at the Ratak Chain Islands of the Marshall Islands.

Nadikdik Atoll, aka the Knox Atoll, is an uninhabited atoll of 18 islands in the Pacific Ocean.

It is known that in 1905, a great storm washed away most of the inhabitants of Nadikdik Island and wiped out most of the island on the map. Only two people survived the storm.

In just over 60 years since the terrible storm passed, the island has grown back into a coral island with vegetation that has re-formed about 25%.

Researchers believe that this rapid regeneration may be due to the large sand deposits and sediments around them, and that the previous storm has pushed a lot of corals onto the island. That helped Nadikdik to revive.

Dr. Ford has been living in Marshall Islands for three years. He said the change was extremely rapid: 'Evidence suggests that geomorphological adjustments are still taking place'.

This finding shows us that a large phenomenon with great intensity and destructive power will simultaneously sink the island and set up a series of natural processes that make the island return.

Since then, researchers hope to study small islands that will help scientists better understand the newly created island and meet concerns, worrying about how small islands will be. easily disappear under sea level rise - a consequence of global warming.