Taro Island is a small

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

with 507 inhabitants. It is the capital of

Choiseul Province Choiseul Province is one of the nine provinces of Solomon Islands. It lies southeast of Bougainville (part of Papua New Guinea), west of Santa Isabel Island, and north of Vella la Vella, Kolombangra & New Georgia. It has a population of 36 ...

and is located in

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off the northwest coast. Taro Island is home to the

Choiseul Bay Airport Choiseul Bay Airport is an airport at Choiseul Bay on Taro Island, part of the Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands. The airport has scheduled flights provided by Solomon Airlines, using DHC-6 Twin Otter The de Havilland Canada DHC ...

, served by

Solomon Airlines Solomon Airlines is the national airline of Solomon Islands, based in Honiara. History Solomon Airlines was established in 1962 as a charter airline by Laurie Crowley. Crowley had a charter operation in Papua New Guinea with occasional chart ...

with flights to Gizo and other destinations. In September 2012, groundbreaking for the construction of a police housing project began. The project will be supervised by the

police board, and will strengthen police presence on the island. The island is very vulnerable to

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. In 2016,

John A. Church John Alexander Church (born 1951) is an expert on sea level and its changes. He was co-convening lead author (with Jonathan M. Gregory) for the chapter on Sea Level in the IPCC Third Assessment Report. He was also a co-convening lead author fo ...

, Colin Woodroffe, and other Australian researchers from

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentar ...

predicted that Taro Island would become the first provincial capital globally to relocate residents and services due to the threat of sea level rise.

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