No wonder it's called a low country, much of it is below sea level
... After a while it occurred 
to the people that if they connected the terps together with long walls, called 
dikes,... [DOC] [TLE] You're making this island disappear - CNN.com [PAR] It's one of the clearest injustices of climate change: The Marshall Islands ... this 
loose collection of no-elevation coral atolls, likely will be submerged beneath the 
... my attention to low-lying island nations that could vanish if seas rise as much 
as 1 or 2 meters.