Search results for "Atoll" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The volcano was eroded to sea level and a coral atoll grew on top to a thickness of about 1,640 feet (500 meters). Coral near the surface has been ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- types of coral reef, fringing, barrier, and atoll, as well as the guyots (flat-topped seamounts), which rise within the Pacific from the ocean ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll.]] RADAR is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- *Palmerston Atoll is the most northerly of the Southern Group of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Amongst the 15 or so islands of ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- bomb to be tested after World War II at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Crossroads. Hayworth performed one of her best ...30 KB (4,610 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- automated, with 43 programs written in the ATOLL programming language. ... south of Johnston Atoll, and 24|km|nmi|abbr=on from Hornet, with ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, T. Lay, H. Kanamori, et al., [https://websites ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- delayed, and on February 21 it moved to Midway Atoll and became part of the garrison. Beginning in June 1944, stationed in the Marshall Islands, Glenn ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- upon the resumption of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in 1995, a few months before signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- in the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. After completing his doctorate, Asimov joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine ...53 KB (8,012 words) - 13:28, 6 March 2024
- These munitions were moved in 1971 to Johnston Atoll under Operation Red Hat. A UN working group began work on chemical disarmament in 1980. ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- S. Army soldiers and Marines landed on Kwajalein atoll on January 31. Fierce fighting occurred and the island was taken on February 6. U.S. Marines next ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
