Search results for "Atoll" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The Fernando de Noronha archipelago and the Rocas Atoll were designated ... Federal Territory that also included Rocas Atoll and Saint Peter and Paul ...
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  • There is no capital. Each atoll has its own administrative center. ... of three elected leaders, one from each atoll, functions as a cabinet. ...
    17 KB (2,411 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
  • | United States Johnston Atoll||(overseas territory of the United States) ... | United States Midway Atoll||(overseas territory of the United States) ...
    20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
  • Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, formerly ...
    28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
  • to 24-25°C in summer, in Glover's Reef atoll to the south; and from 23-26°C in winter to 28-31°C in summer, in Bacalar Chico to the north ...
    15 KB (2,336 words) - 08:54, 27 September 2023
  • Islands, Charles Darwin developed his coral atoll formation theory. There are ... North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island ...
    29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
  • About one-half of the population resides on Majuro Atoll (where the ... On January 31, 1944, American forces landed on Kwajalein Atoll and ...
    23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
  • Island is a volcanic island that has become an atoll.]] ... An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an ...
    19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
  • | Passing between Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll and Gnaviyani Atoll |- |80° 90° | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean | style="background: ...
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  • Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Atoll, in the Line Islands ... pollution in the lagoon of south Tarawa atoll, putting ground water at risk. ...
    25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
  • above sea level. Funafuti is the largest atoll of the nine low reef islands ... to the difficulties of landing ships on the atoll. Peruvian slave raiders ...
    20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
  • Seychelles Islands Foundation. They are the atoll of Aldabra, which is the ... Conservation Centre opened at Alphonse Atoll in 2007. Island Conservation ...
    23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
  • * Atoll reef: An atoll reef is a more or less continuous circular ... or sinuous reef, usually associated with an atoll lagoon and parallel the shelf ...
    54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
  • Each atoll has approximately five to 10 inhabited islands, and 20 ... is located on Malé Island in the Kaafu Atoll. A commercial harbor is located ...
    34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
  • Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife ...
    33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 2023
  • of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island (an atoll with five islets), Henderson Island, and Ducie Island (an atoll with four islets). Pitcairn is ...
    17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
  • stage show. They made their last film, Atoll K, in France in 1950-1951 ... Hardy made one final film together in 1950. Atoll K (also known as Utopia) ...
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  • the exception of Anegada, which is a coral atoll. The U.S. Virgin Islands ... terrain, except for Anegada--the only coral atoll in the group--which is fairly ...
    19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
  • American Samoa is the location of Rose Atoll, considered by some as the ... Olosega, Aunuu, Swains Island, and Rose Atoll. The islands have a tropical ...
    18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
  • This article is about the Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. For the Kiritimati atoll (also known as Christmas Island) in the Pacific ...
    27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023

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