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Instead, marine biologists ply the area, studying the atoll's slow comeback and trying to help it along.

Because the wind blew lengthwise along the atoll, the house had been sheltered by the miles of coconut trees.

Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys ate shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea.

Now, coast guard vessels enforce a fishing ban within the lagoon and within a 12-nautical-mile radius around the atoll.

Strong winds, a dwindling supply of food, and a broken water maker meant she had to change course and head to the atoll of Tarawa instead.

Above the coral sea - South Ari Atoll, Maldives Think blue lagoons, rainbow fish and a wave from the odd passing diver.

Hundreds of these islands together form an atoll, surrounding yet another lagoon.

Taiwan's Coast Guard wasn't involved, but it occasionally chases off foreign fishing boats that come near the atoll.

A scene from the original "Godzilla" , a film inspired by the testing of an American hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

Rhapsody in blur, a school of yellowtail fusiliers (Caesio cunning) swims near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Rhapsody in blue, a school of yellowtail fusiliers (Caesio cunning) swims near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The Cook Islands, south Pacific. 'It takes forever to get to this coral atoll, necklaced by an azure lagoon. '

Rhapsody in blur, a school of yellowtail fusiliers (Caesio tuning) swims near the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

atoll Consisting of a ring-like perimeter reef area, often with reef islets; encloses a lagoon area.

Around 500 people live on Atafu Atoll, mostly in a village that can be seen on the corner in the left of the image above.

Reefs, islands, and the ocean around the Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll and Rose Atoll will be covered.

The first test of a hydrogen bomb was at Enewatak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Reef for more than round or oval-shaped, large sets of small reef reefPlain sailing around the atoll lagoon .

Forest (greenish brown) covers much of the outside perimeter of the six-mile-long (ten-kilometer-long) atoll.

Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, is an atoll about four hundred miles southeast of Howland.

Napoleon fish are one of the animal highlights in Atoll Reef, Ocean Park.

Divers in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands spot a giant clam (Tridacna gigas) anchored to a coral reef.

For a coral atoll nation, sea level rise and more severe weather events loom as a growing threat to our entire population.

Although the atoll lost many corals, it kept an abundance of grazing fish that help reefs recover by keeping them clean.

Addu atoll is almost completely covered with banana trees and bushes in bloom.

Abundant giant clams and branching corals thrive on the patch reefs in the lagoon of Millennium Atoll.

atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef that has closely spaced islands on it encircling a lagoon.

It retains important strategic interests on Kwajalein, the country's largest atoll.

Sand Island belongs to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

On July 9, 1962, U. S. military researchers on a tiny Pacific atoll called Johnston Island fired a thermonuclear weapon into outer space.

Beautiful atoll in the South Pacific through a 400mm lens. About 1200 miles south of Honolulu .

WenXin and tells teddy boy, its fang was dead, sad words fly with son left the atoll.

View of a cloud plume following an atmospheric nuclear weapon test, Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, July 1, 1946.

Correspondence: Atoll sign or reversed halo sign? Which term should be used?

The bikini was invented in 1946 and named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing.

At Eniwetok Atoll , in the Pacific, the USA detonated the first hydrogen bomb.

"Atoll acetabular valley Natural Beauty" at the Ming Tombs about 4 km northwest.

S. conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Bikini Atoll, a ring of Pacific islands in Micronesia.

Gan is the largest island in Addu atoll in the island nation of Maldives.

Transportation: Changping by direct acetabular valley of the small atoll 5 end road that is to get off.

The Defense Department said a target missile was launched from an Army test site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands at 7: 40 p. m.

Bairiki, on Tarawa atoll, is the administrative center. Population, 56, 213.

Reard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll.

The first was opened in South Miladhunmadulu Atoll in March 1979.

rennell , 86 km long x 15 km wide , is the largest raised coral atoll in the world.

The American forces seized the Gilbert Island Atoll from the Japanese. (AP Photo)

Contents of dead Laysan albatross chick's stomach, mostly bottle caps, Kure Atoll, 2002