Search results for "Atoll" - New World Encyclopedia

The Fernando de Noronha archipelago and the Rocas Atoll were designated ... Federal Territory that also included Rocas Atoll and Saint Peter and Paul ...

There is no capital. Each atoll has its own administrative center. ... of three elected leaders, one from each atoll, functions as a cabinet. ...

| United States Johnston Atoll||(overseas territory of the United States) ... | United States Midway Atoll||(overseas territory of the United States) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Islands, Charles Darwin developed his coral atoll formation theory. There are ... North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island ...

About one-half of the population resides on Majuro Atoll (where the ... On January 31, 1944, American forces landed on Kwajalein Atoll and ...

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 ...

| Passing between Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll and Gnaviyani Atoll |- |80° 90° | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean | style="background: ...

Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Atoll, in the Line Islands ... pollution in the lagoon of south Tarawa atoll, putting ground water at risk. ...

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 ...

Seychelles Islands Foundation. They are the atoll of Aldabra, which is the ... Conservation Centre opened at Alphonse Atoll in 2007. Island Conservation ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife ...

of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island (an atoll with five islets), Henderson Island, and Ducie Island (an atoll with four islets). Pitcairn is ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is about the Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. For the Kiritimati atoll (also known as Christmas Island) in the Pacific ...

defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll (located northwest of Hawaii ... The Japanese also intended to occupy Midway Atoll to extend Japan ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giant Tortoise(Geochelone gigantea)from Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles. | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Reptilia ...

Desalination (or desalinization or desalinisation) refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus ...

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 ...

study of Laysan Albatross chicks on Midway Atoll showed large amounts of ingested ... Albatross chicks on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, in 1994 and 1995." ...

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 ...

were completely submerged, and one is a coral atoll. Only three (Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues) remain today. Réunion is home to the highest ...

north east, and Luaniua (Ontong Java, Lord Howe Atoll) to the north. Immigrant populations of Gilbertese (Kiribati) and Tuvalu speak Micronesian languages ...

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 ...

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 ...

island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Of these, eight high islands are considered the "main islands" and are located ...

An ocean (from Ωκεανός , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately ...

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 ...

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 ...

types of coral reef, fringing, barrier, and atoll, as well as the guyots (flat-topped seamounts), which rise within the Pacific from the ocean ...

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, ...

*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 ...

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 ...

automated, with 43 programs written in the ATOLL programming language. ... south of Johnston Atoll, and 24|km|nmi|abbr=on from Hornet, with ...

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, T. Lay, H. Kanamori, et al., [https://websites ...

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 ...

Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution ...

upon the resumption of nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in 1995, a few months before signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. ...

in the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. After completing his doctorate, Asimov joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine ...

These munitions were moved in 1971 to Johnston Atoll under Operation Red Hat. A UN working group began work on chemical disarmament in 1980. ...

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 ...