Atolls

The peculiarity of their forms, which reproduce in a remarkable manner the forms of the Coral Reef "Atolls" of the present day, being vertical, like huge walls, towards the wash of the tide, and supported on the lee side by sloping buttresses.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

The people from Bikini and Enewetak Atolls were forcibly moved from their homes in the late 1940's so we could experiment with nuclear and thermonuclear devices.

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Atolls are circular reefs enclosing lagoons, such as Bikini Atoll.

Coral reef 2010

Atolls begin by colonizing a seamount or volcano, and then grow upward as the seamount sinks and/or as sea level rises.

Coral reef 2010

Atolls can vary greatly in size, ranging from quite small to over 130 kilometers (km) long and 32 km wide (Kwajalein in the Marshal Islands).

Atoll 2008

The geology of Rennell and Bellona Atolls: the great uplifted atolls on the edge of the Coral Sea.

East Rennell, Solomon Islands 2008

Atolls are most commonly found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Atoll 2008

Atolls are circular, oval, or horseshoe-shaped arrays of coral reef islands that are perched around an oceanic volcanic seamount and encircle a shallow central lagoon.

Atoll 2008

Atolls in the southeast of the Tuamotu archipelago are some of the most devastated and most pristine in the Pacific.

Tuamotu tropical moist forests 2007

We are a land trust we own aprox. 40 of RMI 11 Atolls over 300 islands.

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