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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



... with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean; and, on the inside, surrounding a calm expanse of water which, from reflection, is of a bright, but pale, green colour." Keeling atoll, outside which, at less than a mile and a half distance, no bottom was found with a line 7,200 feet in length, having been fully described, and an account given of all other known atoll systems, the ...
— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
... tree-topped rim of reef, smoked with the haze of an impending gale. Ashore, the palms bent like grass in the succeeding gusts, and the ocean beaches reverberated with a furious surf. The great atoll of Makin, no higher than a man, no wider than a couple of furlongs, but in circumference a sinuous giant of ninety miles or more, lay like a snake on the boisterous waters of the equator and defied the ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne


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


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