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atoll

Continuous or broken circle of coral reef and low coral islands surrounding a lagoon.



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A coral atoll is a group of reef islands that have grown along the donut-shaped rim of a submerged volcano.
Coral crisis! Humans are killing off these bustling underwater ... by Norlander, Britt / Science World
In the summer of 2002, an outbreak of febrile illness began in the Republic of Maldives, a nation of 26 coral atolls straddling the equator in the Indian Ocean.
Scrub typhus reemergence in the Maldives by Jones, James W. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
On 19 January 1972, a claim was established on two small coral atolls in the South Pacific.
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