Search results for "Atoll" - New World Encyclopedia
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- defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll (located northwest of Hawaii ... The Japanese also intended to occupy Midway Atoll to extend Japan ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- tests of nuclear devices off the shores of Moruroa Atoll, there was heavy rioting for three days in Papeete. The international airport was nearly destroyed ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- * K-13/R-3S missile (NATO reporting name AA-2 Atoll), a Soviet reverse-engineered copy of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, made possible after a Taiwanese ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- States maintain a military base on Diego Garcia atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. On December 26, 2004, the countries surrounding the Indian ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- 185 miles (300 km) southeast, is a submerged atoll, drying during low tide, six miles (9.5 km) from north to south and nearly five miles (7.5 km ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 02:29, 16 November 2022
- Giant Tortoise(Geochelone gigantea)from Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles. | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Reptilia ...18 KB (2,557 words) - 05:27, 4 November 2022
- Desalination (or desalinization or desalinisation) refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. ...20 KB (2,876 words) - 09:52, 29 January 2024
- protests by resuming nuclear testing at Fangataufa atoll after a three-year moratorium. The last test was on January 27, 1996. The French government signed ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- Bank (with an area of 7,680 km²) resembles an atoll, with the six large islands in the west, north, and east, and a few tiny reefs and cays in the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- lives on Koror. North of these islands is the coral atoll of Kayange. The uninhabited Rock Islands are located to the west of the main island group. A ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- study of Laysan Albatross chicks on Midway Atoll showed large amounts of ingested ... Albatross chicks on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, in 1994 and 1995." ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Physically, the west end is an atoll surrounding a lagoon, while the east end is a range of conical hills. The island has numerous bays, rocky ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- were completely submerged, and one is a coral atoll. Only three (Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues) remain today. Réunion is home to the highest ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- north east, and Luaniua (Ontong Java, Lord Howe Atoll) to the north. Immigrant populations of Gilbertese (Kiribati) and Tuvalu speak Micronesian languages ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- away from the main Japanese attack at Midway Atoll. The U.S. Navy, having broken the Japanese naval radio codes, knew that this was a diversion, and ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- would land 5,000 troops to seize the atoll from the American Marines. ... We see him as he plans the attack on Midway Atoll, and sees his plans fall ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Of these, eight high islands are considered the "main islands" and are located ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- An ocean (from Ωκεανός , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- as sea-level indicators on a mid-ocean atoll." Marine Geology 168:61-78. * Squires, D. F. 1959. "Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
