atoll 的定义
- a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon.
atoll 近义词
island
更多atoll例句
- For those who prefer to experience the atoll’s natural wonders from the surface, Turneffe Flats offers the Adventure Atoll program, which combines snorkeling, kayak and land tours to gain a better understanding of the region’s ecosystems.
- Green sea turtles have used the atoll as an incubator for hundreds or thousands of generations, or perhaps longer.
- Plus, Kate and William could hardly have picked a worse time for their luxury vacation to a resort in Noonu atoll.
- Local paper HaveeryOnline reports that the royal couple are known to be spending their vacation at a resort in Noonu atoll.
- First, you would have to decide that the atoll was a viable option.
- Above him, a still from the footage of the H-Bomb test at Bikini Atoll.
- Atoll, the Polynesian name for coral islands of the ringed type enclosing a lagoon in the centre.
- In 1891 a Committee of the British Association was formed for the investigation of an atoll by means of boring.
- Bikini Atoll, scientists believed, needed only clearing and cultivation to make it once again suitable for human habitation.
- They took samples of fish in the open ocean outside the atoll and made comparative collections at other atolls.
- But, in the case of the Atoll, the coral ring was present and so was the internal lagoon, but there was no rocky island.