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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpsQb5RtT4

Different phenomenon, but there's a bunch of hills in wales that have "island" names because they used to be islands in a bay. All the land in the bay was reclaimed in the early 19th century.

And the famous city of Ephesus moved several times because the port kept silting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXd7UCuxsk, before it eventually became just completely landlocked and abandoned.




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