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Ghoramara Island
Ghoramara Island ((ベンガル語:ঘোড়ামারা দ্বীপ)) is an island located 150 km south of Kolkata, India in the Sundarban Delta complex of the Bay of Bengal. The island is small, roughly five square kilometers in area, and is quickly disappearing due to erosion and sea level rise.
==Shrinking of island==
Global warming has caused the rivers that pour down from the Himalayas and empty into the Bay of Bengal to swell and shift in recent decades, placing these islands, known as the Sundarbans, in danger, four islands are already completely underwater and another 10 in the area are at risk.〔
A recent study by Sugata Hazra, an oceanographer at Jadavpur University in nearby Kolkata, found that during the last 30 years, roughly 80 square kilometers, or , of the Sundarbans have disappeared. More than 600 families have been displaced, according to the local government authorities. Ghoramara alone has shrunk to under five square kilometers, about half its size in 1969, Hazra's study concluded.
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