Wealthy landowners flocked to the area, building plantations to grow Sea Island cotton, among other goods.

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Here, at the northernmost tip of the island, the vines grow thick, branches bent double with grapes ready for harvest.

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To the south, on Stocking Island, luminescent red starfish grow to over a foot in diameter.

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But the sea level is rising, so much so that the nation's water has become too salty to drink and to grow vegetables, especially taro, a vegetable that was once the island's staple food.

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Balakrishnan would grow up to form a jazz-classical fusion outfit called the Turtle Island Quartet.

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Like all Pacific Island teams, if you give them the ammunition, they grow as a team and make life very difficult for you.

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The island is a farm, so there are cattle to tend, timber to cut and organic crops to grow.

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