The Republic of Kiribati, a sovereign state in Micronesia in the central Pacific ocean, bought land on the island of Vanua Levu from Fiji in 2014 as a potential refuge for when climate change submerges the Pacific islands that the Kiribati people currently live on. Kiribati's president Anote Tong bought 7.7 square miles of land on Vanua Levu, which lies 1,240 miles away from Kiribati, at a cost of $8.77 million, for the 110,000 Kiribati people who live on these endangered islands.

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