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| Title: | AERIAL VIEW OF MALÉ IN THE MALDIVE ISLANDS |
| Caption: | A seawall surrounds most of Malé, capital of the Maldives. Constructed to protect the island from waves up to 2 m (7 ft.) high, the seawall cost about $4,000 per square meter. Seawalls have been built on only a few of the 1192 islands that make up this country. Approximately 80 percent of the land area of the Maldives is less than a meter above mean sea level. (Peter Essick/Aurora & Quanta Productions Inc.) |
| Keywords: | atmosphere, climates, climatology, global warming, shorelines, shores, coasts, coastlines, oceans, water, waves, beaches, sediments, erosion, deposition, hard stabilization, seawalls |