Ring-shaped coral reef, generally formed over a former oceanic volcan, frequently with small emerging islands (motus) over the rim, often enclosing a central lagoon possibly still containing one or a few emerging elevated islands.
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Examples for "coral atoll "
Examples for "coral atoll "
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.
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 .
6 Millennium lagoon provides an excellent reference of a relatively undisturbed coral atoll .
7 The ship spent time off the uninhabited French Polynesian atoll of Mururoa.
8 Tokelau's first airstrip will be built on the central atoll of Nukunonu.
9 Even as Captain Lynch spoke, a great watery mass smote the atoll .
10 Hosking was on a beach on Midway island, a remote Hawaiian atoll .
11 Even a less militant vegetarian is unlikely to survive on an atoll .
12 What could possibly sustain such a massive number on this barren atoll ?
13 The capital atoll Tarawa is overcrowded and underdeveloped, even compared to Majuro.
14 In answer, another rumbling crash shook the atoll and the house.
15 Here was certainly an atoll ; and we were certainly got among the archipelago.
16 Quotes the General's description of the atoll as it is today.
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