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Report: Historic Jamestown Could Be Wiped Off Map

By Hugh CollinsSep 1st 2010 – 4:11PM
Adrin Snider, Newport News Daily Press/MCT

Adrin Snider, Newport News Daily Press/MCT

(Sept. 1) -- Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English colony in what became the United States, could be wiped off the map by climate change, researchers warned today. As the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels could completely swamp the historical location that has stood as an icon of American history...

Background on sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface (such as the halfway point between the mean high tide and the mean low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation.

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