The causeway onto Mersea Island known as The Strood is covered by seawater twice a day. In the foreground a depth marker can be seen.

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Mersea Island is the most easterly inhabited island in the UK. The causeway known as The Strood is the only road on and off the island and experiences high tide twice per day cutting Mersea off from the mainland. The Met Office has concluded that large areas of land stretching as far as Lowestoft in north Suffolk down to Clacton, Walton-on-the-Naze and Mersea Island on the Essex coast are set to be destroyed as rising seas levels flood homes and devastate coastal communities.

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Size: 5430px × 3620px
Location: Mersea Island, Essex, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Stephen McCorkell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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