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Atoll   /ˈætˌɑl/  /ˈætˌɔl/  /ətˈoʊl/   Listen
Atoll

noun
1.
An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.





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"Atoll" Quotes from Famous Books



... any other island I am acquainted with. At first sight of a chart it resembles an atoll; but it differs from this structure essentially in the gently shelving bottom of the sea all round to some distance; in the absence of the defined circular reefs, and, as a consequence, of the defined central pool or lagoon; ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... the sole survivors of the Petite Jeanne. Captain Oudouse must have succumbed to exhaustion, for several days later his hatch-cover drifted ashore without him. Otoo and I lived with the natives of the atoll for a week, when we were rescued by a French cruiser and taken to Tahiti. In the meantime, however, we had performed the ceremony of exchanging names. In the South Seas such a ceremony binds two men closer together ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine


Words linked to "Atoll" :   Midway Islands, Eniwetok, bikini, Kwajalein, coral reef


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