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

Sinónimos

Examples for "atoll"

When you come here you see the highest point on the atoll. 
 Radio NZ 

Nearly 60 years after the last test, the atoll is still uninhabitable. 
 Radio NZ 

The reef must be a drowned atoll, perhaps surrounding a former island. 
 Existence 

I did calculations of it-big-alloverthe blessed atoll in ornamental figuring. 
 The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 

As development activities expanded on Namdrik, numerous donors partnered with the atoll. 
 Radio NZ 

It is the world's largest coral reef and a major tourist draw. 
 Reuters 

She was in graduate school at Duke University, studying coral reef fish. 
 Wired 

A number of such polypidoms growing close together form a coral reef. 
 Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Thei... 

It has been presumed that it struck a coral reef and sank. 
 Radio NZ 

Palmyra had recently been purchased by The Nature Conservancy for coral reef research. 
 The world without us 

Millennium lagoon provides an excellent reference of a relatively undisturbed coral atoll. 
 Pubmed 

The population decline on Niue, a lush coral atoll, has been steady and relentless. 
 The Guardian 

A coral atoll is the crest of a dying volcano. 
 The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific 

Fiji has also offered to help other Pacific islanders on low-lying island coral atoll nations. 
 Reuters 

These islands have dramatic mountain backdrops, rather than the flat, coral atoll look of Nananu-i-Ra. 
 News.com.au 

Uso de coral island en 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 