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Definition of Atolls
1. atoll [n] - See also: atoll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atolls
Literary usage of Atolls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... or atolls—Depth at which reef-building Corals can live— Vast Areas interspersed
with low Coral Islands—Subsidence of their foundations—Barrier ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"The bottom of all the channels separating the composite atolls appears to be
flat; the soundings drop rapidly, and generally at a distance of a mile and a ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... situated in the Indian Ocean, and about six hundred miles distant from the
coast of Sumatra. This is one of the lagoon-islands (or atolls) of coral ..."
4. Journal of Researches Into the Geology & Natural History of the Various by Charles Darwin (1908)
"This is one of .the lagoon-islands (or atolls) of coral formation, similar to
Those in the Low Archipelago Which we passed near. ..."
5. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville (1870)
"Different kinds of coral formations; atolls or lagoon islands; encircling reefs;
barrier reefs; coral reefs. § 2. Areas of subsidence and elevation in the ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"The subsidence indicated by atolls and barrier reefs; '2. ... In a survey of the
ocean, the eye observing its numerous atolls, sees in each, literally as ..."
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