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/ˈætˌɑl/ /ˈætˌɔl/ /ətˈoʊl/ Listen

Atoll

noun

An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.

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"Atoll" Quotes from Famous Books

... with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean; and, on the inside, surrounding a calm expanse of water which, from reflection, is of a bright, but pale, green colour." Keeling atoll, outside which, at less than a mile and a half distance, no bottom was found with a line 7,200 feet in length, having been fully described, and an account given of all other known atoll systems, the ...

— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

... tree-topped rim of reef, smoked with the haze of an impending gale. Ashore, the palms bent like grass in the succeeding gusts, and the ocean beaches reverberated with a furious surf. The great atoll of Makin, no higher than a man, no wider than a couple of furlongs, but in circumference a sinuous giant of ninety miles or more, lay like a snake on the boisterous waters of the equator and defied the ...

— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

Words linked to "Atoll" : coral reef, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, bikini, Midway Islands