2006 Papua New Guinea, Carterets Atoll (68 images)

Photographs of the Carterets Islands Atoll, north of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea. The islands made the headlines as there are plans to relocate the 2,000 islanders as life on the fragile Pacific atoll has become unsustainable due to over population, lack of food, erosion of land and rising sea levels.