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New Moore, or South Talpatti
South Talpatti (as it was known in Bangladesh), or New Moore (India), was a small uninhabited offshore sandbar landform in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta region.〔(Global warming as peacemaker? Disputed island disappears under rising sea. ), ''Christian Science Monitor'', March 24, 2010〕 It emerged in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Bhola cyclone in 1970, and disappeared at some later point.〔(New Moore Island - Global Warming experts say that rising sea levels and Climate Change are to blame )〕
Although the island was uninhabited and there were no permanent settlements or stations located on it, both India and Bangladesh claimed sovereignty over it because of speculation over the existence of oil and natural gas in the region.〔 The issue of sovereignty was also a part of the larger dispute over the Radcliffe Award methodology of settling the maritime boundary between the two nations.〔
==Geography==
The island was situated only two kilometers from the mouth of the Hariabhanga River. The emergence of the island was discovered by an American satellite in 1974 that showed it to have an area of 2,500 sq meters (27,000 sq ft). Later, various remote sensing surveys showed that the island had expanded gradually to an area of about 10,000 sq meters (110,000 sq ft) at low tide, including a number of ordinarily submerged shoals. The highest elevation of the island never exceeded two meters above sea level.〔("Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'vanishes' say scientists" ), BBC, March 24, 2010〕
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