At some point the volcanic island subsides enough for it to submerge, leaving an atoll behind. |
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With his wife, he created an atoll of comfortableness amidst the surging throngs and I always felt a tug towards them. |
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The mission involved a patrol to the northern-most extremity of the Solomon archipelago, to a picturesque atoll called Ontong Java. |
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Bassas da India is an emerging, circular madreporic atoll, with an area lower than 1 sq. km. |
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Diving is generally within the atoll lagoons for the inexperienced, and outside the atolls on reef walls for the advanced. |
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The main island, the Tarawa atoll, is only a few metres above sea level and houses around 40,000 people. |
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Each atoll is the topmost point of a submarine pillar of limestone extending several thousand feet from an extinct volcano. |
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The large seaplanes landed in the quiet atoll waters and pulled up to a float offshore. |
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This is an instance of a very early stage of the apparent disseverment of an atoll. |
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From the air the tiny islets of Funafuti atoll appear as a broken pearl necklace scattered on the blue throat of the tropical sea. |
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An atoll usually consists of a string of closely spaced coral islets separated by narrow channels of water. |
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The water in the center of the atoll is undrinkable and holds only pond weed and biting isopods. |
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Yet on a remote Pacific atoll they've been indirectly responsible for safeguarding a thriving coral reef ecosystem. |
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The Aldabra atoll stands as a rare symbol of hope and encouragement for conservation around the world. |
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My plan involves me videotaping my own isolation on the atoll, but Explorer also wants to send a second cameraperson for a portion of my trip. |
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It's an atoll the Americans call Swains Island but which Tokelauans call Olohega. |
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Plus, Kate and William could hardly have picked a worse time for their luxury vacation to a resort in Noonu atoll. |
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This site is well known for the large pod of about 100 spinner dolphins that make their way out of the atoll every evening to hunt fish and squid in the open ocean. |
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With no natural protection from the sea, apart from a narrow coral reef, the atoll was at the mercy of massive waves that crashed over its 30-metre high seaward cliffs. |
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He said the move had become necessary in the light of 1998 legislation in which the islands' territorial waters had been extended by 22 km around the atoll. |
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Come daybreak, the atoll was about three miles away and had rough water. |
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Adaptation is undoubtedly a crucial issue for an extremely vulnerable small atoll island nation like Tuvalu. |
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But a century of mining has devastated our unique and fragile atoll environment. |
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Upgrading of schools and hospitals has been accorded the highest priority on each atoll for the coming three-year programme cycle. |
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The health and nutrition programme has had an impact at the national and targeted atoll levels. |
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Mr. KRAPPMANN commended Maldives for making education available to all children on every atoll. |
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One morning, on a small uninhabited atoll called Ducie Island, the remotest of the Pitcairns, he decided to record what he found. |
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Meanwhile, the Philippines said it had lodged a formal protest against Chinese construction work on an atoll in the disputed Spratly Islands. |
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Each atoll comprises strips of land up to 200 m wide and not more than 5 m above sea level. |
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These bases fell so swiftly that the US troops were able to attack Eniwetok atoll at the extreme north-west end of the island chain six weeks ahead of schedule. |
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The Togian Islands offer the unique opportunity for both divers and snorkelers to explore all 3 types of coral reef: fringe, barrier and atoll. |
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Local paper HaveeryOnline reports that the royal couple are known to be spending their vacation at a resort in Noonu atoll. |
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Even the people of Bikini like Americans, despite the ecocide nuclear testing wrought on their atoll. |
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The United Kingdom and United States maintain a military base on Diego Garcia atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. |
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First, you would have to decide that the atoll was a viable option. |
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Just this week it emerged that a Chinese vessel that ran aground in a protected coral atoll in the Philippines on April 8th was carrying 400 boxes ten tonnes of meat from the pangolin, the endangered scaly anteater. |
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Also of big quantity of tortoises, Tunas, big Snappers and Groupers, huge school of barracudas similar to those of Sipadan are drifting with the current at the end of the atoll. |
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English naturalist Charles Darwin concluded in 1842 that barrier reefs began as reefs fringing the land around which they now form a barrier and that oceanic atoll reefs began as reefs fringing a volcanic island. |
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They scurry ceaselessly over the coasts of the atoll looking for food. |
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The project is ongoing at present under a national execution modality, wherein each atoll has been allocated funds from the total amount for strengthening their sea walls. |
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Head out to Goff's Caye, a palm-fringed tropical atoll then island hop to Tobacco Caye where, on the right night, there is magical bioluminescence. |
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Through the open window, beyond the gentle surf of the shoreline and the sea, the neighbouring atoll islands appear as pencil thin lines on the horizon. |
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However, it is almost linked to the Indian mainland by Adam's Bridge, an atoll barrier, mostly submerged, lying between the offshore island of Mannar and India itself. |
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Kiribati is a State Signatory to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and is hosting a radionuclide station on Kiritimati atoll to assist in monitoring Treaty compliance. |
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Steps were being taken to ensure that there was at least one school in every atoll that provided education to disabled children through an integrated approach. |
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In February 1997, the Regional Communication Adviser for Asia carried out a mission to the Maldives to help launch atoll media production centres in Haardaalu and Gaafdhaalu islands. |
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At only 32 years of age, Alex is executive chef at Soneva Fushi, a spectacular resort perched on the Baa atoll of Kunfunadhoo island in the Maldives. |
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The project, covering 15 households on Fakaofo, will be expanded upon availability of funding to complete atoll coverage, thereby significantly reducing reliance on fossil fuels. |
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Kiribati includes Kiritimati, the largest coral atoll in the world, and Banaba, one of the three great phosphate islands in the Pacific. |
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Greenpeace had reason to suspect that recent tests had opened a crack in the atoll, causing a serious radiation leak. |
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A few natural depressions on the atoll rim capture the abundant rainfall to form areas of freshwater wetlands. |
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An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island. |
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The atoll is a wildlife sanctuary, and in 2001 was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. |
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The atoll and surrounding waters are contained in the Atol das Rocas Biological Reserve. |
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On the other hand, the remoteness also limits researchers' access to the islands and few studies have been developed on this atoll. |
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The longitude of Rio de Janeiro was to be found and also made geological survey of a circular coral atoll in the Pacific ocean. |
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Since 1971, only the atoll of Diego Garcia is inhabited, home to some 3,000 UK and US military and civilian contracted personnel. |
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Pingelapese is a Micronesian language spoken on the Pingelap atoll and on two of the eastern Caroline Islands, called the high island of Pohnpei. |
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Hurricane storm surges can initiate turbidity currents from otherwise peaceful atoll and oceanic-island coral reefs. |
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Starting yesterday, Tuvalu inaugurated a 500 kW solar PV power plant on the atoll of Funafuti. |
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The benefits of sailing with a rally were dramatically demonstrated while the boats were anchored at the Pacific atoll of Suwarrow. |
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Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago. |
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The United States Air Force operates a High Frequency Global Communications System transceiver site located on the south end of the atoll near the GEODSS station. |
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Later in 1985 the Rainbow Warrior was to lead a flotilla of protest vessels into the waters surrounding Moruroa atoll, site of French nuclear testing. |
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In spring 2006, she ran aground on an atoll in the South Pacific. |
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However, a proposal to establish a pearl farm on uninhabited Suwarrow atoll was rejected in 2001 over fears that the atoll's large seabird colonies would be disturbed. |
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The basin contains over 800 pinnacle and atoll reefs of the Keg River Formation formed during the Mid-Devonian and are encased in sealing evaporites of the Muskeg Formation. |
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The fallout plume spread high levels of radiation for over a hundred miles, contaminating a number of populated islands in nearby atoll formations. |
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Other, smaller freshwater wetlands are found along the east side of the runway, and in the vicinity of the receiver antenna field on the northwest arm of the atoll. |
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Johnston Atoll is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States. |
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Last summer, participants observed spinner dolphins on Midway Atoll and documented seabirds in California. |
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Absence of major oceanographic anomalies in the immediate vicinity of Johnston Atoll may contribute to relatively high and invariant survival in Brown Boobies. |
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The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is the nesting ground for some two million seabirds spanning 15 species, including the Laysan albatrosses. |
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The United States Army maintains the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. |
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Midway Atoll, in common with all the Hawaiian Islands, receives substantial amounts of debris from the garbage patch. |
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In 2001, UNESCO declared Fernando de Noronha, with Rocas Atoll, a World Heritage Site. |
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A large population spreads across the Hawaiian Islands every winter, ranging from the island of Hawaii in the south to Kure Atoll in the north. |
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On 5 February, King recommended that Funafuti Atoll in the Ellice Islands be made an advance base to cover Fiji and Samoa. |
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Above him, a still from the footage of the H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll. |
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In 1942, during World War II, the archipelago was made a Federal territory, which included Rocas Atoll and Saint Peter and Paul Rocks. |
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To solve the mystery, you arm-wrestle and plank-dive your way to exotic locations, like Knuttin Atoll. |
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He had subsequently participated in the American Operation Crossroads test at Bikini Atoll. |
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American Forces Radio and Television also provides TV service to Kwajalein Atoll. |
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In 2008, 420 solar home systems of 200 Wp each were installed on Ailinglaplap Atoll, sufficient for limited electricity use. |
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Nuclear testing began in 1946 on Bikini Atoll after residents were evacuated. |
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America said the USS Lassen was operating lawfully by Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Atoll in the South China Sea. |
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It also encompasses a number of oceanic archipelagos, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. |
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An agreement between the Marshallese Government and the US requires an Environmental Impact Report on missile testing effects on Kwajalein Atoll, its islands and lagoon. |
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On September 29, 1914, Japanese troops occupied the Enewetak Atoll, and on September 30, 1914, the Jaluit Atoll, the administrative centre of the Marshall Islands. |
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When the nuclear tests at Amchitka were over, Greenpeace moved its focus to the French atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. |
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The Tortugas Atoll has had up to 11 islets during the past two centuries. |
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On Midway Atoll, collisions between Laysan albatross and aircraft have resulted in human and bird deaths as well as severe disruptions in military flight operations. |
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A report in mid 2017 by Stanford University, some 70 years after 23 atomic bombs were detonated on Bikini Atoll, indicates abundant fish and plant life in the coral reefs. |
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