They built on a coral reef
Reef Islands come and go in timespans as short as a few hundred years.
Of course if they win the lawsuit, maybe they can build a giant floating casino and get some American and Australian tourists to visit their water-logged berg.
Scott
P.S. Did you ever notice that just about the time that western civilization started to put it all together (i.e. Plato started writing) was the same time that Atlantis disappeared into the sea?Hey, These people may have something afterall: Western society seeks to submerge all its competitors.