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A comment on Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010).

Re:Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) by adamcharnock on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:30PM (#13378830)
"parts of the region are below sea level and the ocean is only cut off by about a 20-metre block of land in Eritrea."

This caught my eye. How big is this region that is just 20m away from being flooded? And 20m of Eritrea at that. Not exactly comparable IMHO to the rather more politically stable Netherlands.

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Re:Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) by drinkjuice on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:59AM (#13380109)
Assuming this map is somewhat accurate, it seems like even just 1m would make most of the difference for that country:

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/

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