INSIGHT TO ISLANDS

I WAS completely flabbergasted when I read Beth Lavington’s letter in Friday’s CP regarding rising seas causing erosion of Torres Strait islands or, as she says, not causing erosion.

It is absolutely obvious to anyone and everyone who has ever been to or lived in the Torres Strait that Beth has never been halfway close to the Torres Strait.

Thursday and Horn Islands are part of the continuation of the Great Dividing Range and are hilly islands, not coral cays.

They are also surrounded by other islands and as such are in relatively protected waters.

Yorke Island or Masig to Torres Strait people (incidentally my wife’s home island) is a coral atoll. It is one of three inhabited central islands

that are coral atolls, the other two being Sue (Warraber) and Coconut (Poruma). These islands are being eroded through rising seas, along with the two low-lying islands of Boigu and Saibai which lie adjacent to the coast of PNG.

Danny O’Shane, Holloways Beach.