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Netley in 18,000 years? | Stage
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Walk up the road towards the Park Tea Rooms. At the double gate turn right and
follow the gravel track leading in front of the chapel. | | | This
chapel was at the centre of the vast military hospital which Florence Nightingale
helped design and which opened in 1863. It was once the biggest building in Europe
and was where soldiers from conflicts including the Crimea, 1914-18 and the D-Day
landings were treated.
Look at the chapel building which is 50 metres
high. In the future, the sea level could rise by 60 metres which means the dome
would be underwater in 18,000 years from now.
Northern Britain is recording
sea level loss while the south is experiencing sea level rise at a rate of 3mm
a year or 30cm a century.
This is mostly due to movements in the earth's
crust as it recovers from the Ice Age when the weight of ice forced the land mass
downwards.
Combined with global warming and the polar ice caps melting
at an ever increasing rate, the rate at which the sea level us rising is likely
to drastically speed up.
Continue on the path which runs in front of the Chapel.
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