Ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral.
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Examples for "atoll "
Examples for "atoll "
1 When you come here you see the highest point on the atoll .
2 Nearly 60 years after the last test, the atoll is still uninhabitable.
3 The reef must be a drowned atoll , perhaps surrounding a former island.
4 I did calculations of it-big-alloverthe blessed atoll in ornamental figuring.
5 As development activities expanded on Namdrik, numerous donors partnered with the atoll .
1 It is the world's largest coral reef and a major tourist draw.
2 She was in graduate school at Duke University, studying coral reef fish.
3 A number of such polypidoms growing close together form a coral reef .
4 It has been presumed that it struck a coral reef and sank.
5 Palmyra had recently been purchased by The Nature Conservancy for coral reef research.
1 While we were talking we were rapidly approaching the coral island .
2 And as for Jack Rogers, I'm eloping with him to a coral island .
3 It was, I judged, a lately made coral island .
4 I put them on island duty because, well, with a coral island there is not the temptation-
5 I fancied that I observed the development of that disease when we lived together on the coral island .
1 Millennium lagoon provides an excellent reference of a relatively undisturbed coral atoll .
2 The population decline on Niue, a lush coral atoll , has been steady and relentless.
3 A coral atoll is the crest of a dying volcano.
4 Fiji has also offered to help other Pacific islanders on low-lying island coral atoll nations.
5 These islands have dramatic mountain backdrops, rather than the flat, coral atoll look of Nananu-i-Ra.
6 It was in the Marshall Islands where scientists finally discovered what, in fact, constitutes a coral atoll .
7 Their tiny foothold in the Pacific was Caroline Island, a coral atoll on the outskirts of the Marquesas group.
8 Mangaia is the most southern raised coral atoll of the Cook Islands group with a population of just 700.
9 Rennell is the largest raised coral atoll in the world, and contains diverse and unmodified forests, coral and species.
10 The island is the largest raised coral atoll in the world, and contains diverse and unmodified forests, coral and species.
11 Set me upon a coral atoll with that volume, I will repopulate the world with dictionaries, and beget lusty tomes.
12 In the midst of these clustered dots is Makatea, a raised coral atoll in the north-west sector of the Tuamotu Archipelago.
13 The world's largest coral atoll , Kiritimati has just one flight a week to either Fiji or Hawaii, four-and-a-half hours in either direction.
14 When Stevie dropped out in Hawaii, Jason carried on spending 73 days alone at sea to reach the tiny coral atoll of Tarawa.
15 Byron backed off and instead set sail towards the larger neighbouring island, but he again failed to anchor along the ringed coral atoll .
16 The largest coral atoll in the world, Kiritimati, in Kiribati, is set to lose almost all its coral due to bleaching according to scientists.
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