atoll
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Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu in the South Pacific, an atoll chain reckoning with rising seas, acidifying oceans and outbreaks of tropical disease.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The researchers are currently roughly halfway through their journey to the remote atoll aboard the Marin Mainiku, a Kiribati National Shipping Line vessel.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
A single atoll in the Seychelles serves as home to hundreds of thousands of tortoises, while millions of flamingoes flock annually to Lake Natron in Tanzania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The operation concerned a 50-mile-wide atoll, Rongelap Island, in the Marshall Islands.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Both of those atoll types present problems to human settlers, because they consist entirely of limestone without other stones, have only very thin soil, and lack permanent fresh water.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing atoll
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Pacific Islands - Introductory
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