Usage of "coral island"

ruso

коралловый риф

portugués

recife de coral

catalán

escull de corall

español

arrecife de coral

Ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral.

arrecife de coral

Usage of coral island in inglés

While we were talking we were rapidly approaching the coral island. 
 A Voyage round the World / A book for boys 

And as for Jack Rogers, I'm eloping with him to a coral island. 
 Poison Island 

It was, I judged, a lately made coral island. 
 In the Eastern Seas 

I put them on island duty because, well, with a coral island there is not the temptation- 
 Strata 

I fancied that I observed the development of that disease when we lived together on the coral island. 
 The Gorilla Hunters 

The first land we make is Marè-one of the Loyalty Islands- alowcoral island, about seventy miles in circumference. 
 The Cruise of the Mary Rose; Or, Here and There in the Pacific 

I am so glad, for I want to see a real coral island, and that of course is one. 
 The Cruise of the "Dainty"; Or, Rovings in the Pacific 

Here was a coral island. 
 Lord of the Flies 

On the coral island of Niue¯ or Savage Island, in the South Pacific, there formerly reigned a line of kings. 
 The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion 

We already knew that, however beautiful a coral island looks at a distance, the landing on it is very disappointing. 
 The Cruise of the "Dainty"; Or, Rovings in the Pacific 

They seemed as much alone on their little hill as if they stood on a coral island in the south seas. 
 The Free Rangers: A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississipp... 

It was first discovered -and killed -on the tiny vegetated coral island of Bramble Cay by Europeans in 1845. 
 The Guardian 

William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. 
 Lord of the Flies 

Mr. D. established an oil factory on a small coral island, a hundred miles north of New Guinea, with no intervening land. 
 The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and... 

And after that the mermaid asked them to visit her coral island, where she and her sisters sold coral beads and scarfpins. 
 Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog 

It was a small low coral island, with a lagoon, or lake in the centre, and cocoa-nuts and other trees growing round it. 
 Washed Ashore; Or, The Tower of Stormount Bay 