The ironman of travel Yoshimasa Ikeuchi

Seabird

Arctic jellyfish washed up on the coast

It's like a cross for an old house

Shipwreck

The day will come when the bird's playground will also be filled with concrete

A type of jellyfish

Kids playing on the sandy road

Truck carrying blocks

Block construction to prevent the sand on the Island from being scraped off by the waves

House relocated to the old airport

Sand road

Mechanical equipment For land reclamation of the coast

All roads are sand

Concrete blocks are piled up on the coast to protect the Island,
and the natural landscape is disappearing even on the Islands of the Arctic Ocean.

It may be unavoidable to protect this Island.

Shishmaref, where polar bears also come to the Island in winter,
is only 5 km away from the mainland.

Even in the middle of summer,
the wind blowing from the Arctic Ocean is cold,
and the abandoned houses remain painful,
leaving the skeleton.

The relocated houses are left on the runway traces of the old airport.

The next period when the sea begins to freeze is delayed year by year,
and the ice melts faster.

As the ice melts and the sea ice recedes,
the waves scrape off the permafrost.

On the Arctic Island of Shishmaref in western Alaska,
Coastal erosion has progressed since around 1999,
and houses have collapsed one after another.

The effects of global warming are also scraping
off the permafrost on the "sand Island."
It was decided to move the entire village to the mainland of Alaska,
but due to costs, the plan remains deadlocked.

It will be the duty and responsibility of each human
being to prevent global warming so that
this Island will not be sacrificed.

The Eskimos who do not show such a dark face
even finely raise their hands from the buggy
and run with a smile today.

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Island of victims of global warming