The Marshall Islands hosts the US Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Reagan Missile Test Site, a key installation in the US missile defense network.
In September 1995, France stirred up widespread protests by resuming nuclear testing on the Mururoa atoll after a three-year moratorium.
This organization is managing theatoll as a nature preserve.
As the Coral glided into this "inland sea," Captain Bergen took the helm, being as familiar with the contour of the atoll as if he had spent a dozen years upon it.
It was also an atoll like that, but much smaller in size, and, of course, uninhabited.
At the moment of writing this we are lost at sea somewhere northeast of Ysabel and trying vainly to find Lord Howe Island, which is an atoll that cannot be sighted unless one is on top of it.
The coral, still growing up, will cover the surface of the land, and you will have an atoll reef; that is to say, a more or less circular or oval ring of coral rock with a lagoon in the middle.
And not only would this be the case, but we should find that for a considerable distance down, all the material of these atoll and encircling reefs was built up of precisely the same coral rock as the fringing reef.
Another is a sort of half-way house, between the atoll and the fringing reef; it is what is called an "encircling reef.
The atoll was sighted a little after ten o'clock in the morning, and by eleven o'clock the ship had safely entered the lagoon, and come to anchor as nearly as possible in its centre.
For of course she is far out of sight of the atoll by this time.
So disproportionate was it to the slender ring of the atoll that it showed out upon the sand-strip and above it like some monstrous excrescence.
You can see it from the deck--tops of cocoanuts--an atoll of some sort.
Very near must palms be to be seen from the low deck of a schooner, and, slowly as the Uncle Toby sailed, she quickly raised the low land above the sea, while more palms increased the definition of the atoll circle.
He'll cross the lagoon and land on the other rim of the atoll if there's any atoll left!
The Dolly was the first, but her tarpaulin was carried away, and she went to destruction on the lee-rim of the atoll near the Misi and the Cactus.
But the Misi and Cactus, unable to get clear of each other, went ashore on the atoll half a mile from the passage.
In answer, another rumbling crash shook the atoll and the house.
If there is anything in navigation, the atoll is surely under the sea, for we've sailed clear over it twice--or the spot where it ought to be.
After that he had gone on his way to mend trouble on the atoll of Tasman, where a plague of black measles had broken out and been ascribed to Grief's plantation by the devil-devil doctors.
The atoll was shaped as if three atolls, in the course of building, had collided and coalesced and failed to rear the partition walls.
However, we could see the whole of the atoll of the ones we sailed past.
This did not prove to be the atoll we were looking for, nor did the next, or the next; we were getting among islands so thick that it was necessary to carry double watches at night on deck.
The strip of land was only about a quarter of a mile wide, but one hundred miles in circumference, forming an atoll with a large lagoon in the centre.
An expedition sent out by the Royal Society of London started in 1896 for the island of Funafuti, a typical atoll of the Ellice group in the Pacific Ocean, with the purpose of making a deep boring to test this question.
At the same time, it must be remembered that the atoll or barrier reef shape is not necessarily evidence of formation during subsidence, for the observations of Karl Semper, A.
Illustration: Diagram showing the formation of an atollduring subsidence.
It is obvious that, if Murray's theory were correct, a bore hole sunk deep into an atoll would pass through some 100 ft.
Thus the outer edge of a submerged reef is the first to reach the surface, and a ring of land being formed by materials piled up by the waves, an atoll with a central lagoon is produced.
A', A', outer edges of theatoll formed by upgrowth of the coral during the subsidence of the peak.
When it's in this kind of a temper, threading the passages at the entrance of a South Pacific coral atoll (to most sailors the last thing in difficult navigation) is like sailing down a countryside canal in comparison.
If the island had been anything but a coral atoll my reckoning would have worked out all right; as it was it upset things completely.
In the evening the traders came on board and made an arrangement with Hayes to proceed in the brig to Arrecifos (Providence Island), a large atoll to the north-west, of which Hayes had taken possession.
The geographer Balbi has well remarked that an encircled island is an atoll with high land rising out of its lagoon; remove the land from within, and a perfect atoll is left.
ATOLL (native name atollon in the Maldive Islands), a horse-shoe or ring shaped coral reef enclosing a lagoon.
For the theory of atoll formation see CORAL-REEFS.
Conceive one that has been partly plucked of its rush fringe; you have the atoll of Kauehi.
The plants (such as they are) spring from and love the broken coral, whence they grow with that wonderful verdancy that makes the beauty of the atoll from the sea.
Their children, while they are alive, completely rule them; after they are dead, their bones or their mummies are often jealously preserved and carried from atoll to atoll in the wanderings of the family.
Cuzent, the whole number of plants on an atoll such as Fakarava will scarce exceed, even if it reaches to, one score.
But men are more nicely sensible of a discomfort; and the atoll is a discomfortable home.
This was in the atoll of Namorik in the Marshall group, and stands alone in my experience.
Their punishment is to be sent to a coral atoll and detained there prisoners.
On the atoll of Penrhyn, then still partly savage, a certain chief was long the salutary terror of the natives.
Numerous soundings taken all round the Cocos atoll showed that at ten fathoms the prepared tallow in the hollow of the sounding rod came up perfectly clean, and marked with the impression of living polyps.
On Arno Atoll geckos and night-feeding skinks eat large numbers of cockroaches (Usinger and La Rivers, 1953).
How again, on this hypothesis, are atolls to be accounted for, unless, as some have done, we take refuge in the wild supposition that every atoll corresponds with the crater of a submarine volcano?
The atoll has exactly the appearance of a vast, irregularly oval, or circular, breakwater, enclosing smooth water in its midst.
There can't be natives living anywhere on the atoll now, so I don't think we need to keep a night watch as long as we stop here.
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