Significados de encircle reef en inglés

Raiatea and Tahaa are unique in that they lie inside the same encircling reef.

In addition to the great barrier, every island has an encircling reef of its own.

The gaps or openings in the encircling reefs are always found opposite to a river or stream.

At length we got clear of the encircling reef, and found ourselves in a broad expanse of perfectly smooth water.

At this part of the island the encircling reef was close to the shore, leaving the water within smooth, and extremely shallow.

'Just been up the rigging to get a good look at this great encircling reef at Vanikoro.

The structure of the rocky accumulation in the encircling reefs and in the atolls is essentially the same as in the fringing reef.

Then there are atoll islands; these rise within a large encircling reef, which is seldom perfect, having passages here and there through it.

Thus the rising sea would eventually convert a large island with a fringing reef into a small island surrounded by an encircling reef.

Another is a sort of half-way house, between the atoll and the fringing reef; it is what is called an " encircling reef."

"The sea is breaking heavily over the encircling reef," he said; "but there is a smooth lagoon between it and the land.