atoll
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The first body of an Italian diver, who was a member of the group, was recovered shortly after Thursday's accident near Vaavu atoll.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
“I want my money, and I want to go home,” says Markuse Michel, 64, who remembers swimming in azure waters and kicking a soccer ball around with his friends on Peros Banhos atoll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Under a contentious deal inked with Australia this year, the island nation will provide 30-year visas for up to 350 immigrants -- many convicted of serious crimes -- for resettlement on the barren atoll.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
The operation concerned a 50-mile-wide atoll, Rongelap Island, in the Marshall Islands.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
In the spring of 1951, the lab staged Project Greenhouse, a test of thermonuclear technology at the South Pacific coral atoll of Eniwetok.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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