This report describes the development of a regional coastal vulnerability framework that demonstrates the relative sensitivities of different islands in the Pacific to coastal change. As part of the report a series of maps displaying relative vulnerability were produced, along with an island type database, including various island attributes such as size, shape, geology, etc.

Island polygons were obtained primarily from the World Vector Shorelines (GSHHG v2.2.2) data. Some polygons were amended to better fit underlying data (ESRI World Imagery basemap) Some smaller polygons were digitised.

This publication was produced under the Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science Adaptation Planning (PACCSAP) programme.

Lineage: Island points were produced by using Google Earth to retrieve coordinates.

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Credit:
NOAA National Geophysical Data Centre http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp
Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/intl/en/license.html