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atoll

Continuous or broken circle of coral reef and low coral islands surrounding a lagoon.
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The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark.
South Sea Tales by London, Jack View in context
Didn't he fetch the atoll after eighteen days in the longboat?
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
I live on an atoll, a low island, it is a strip of land surrounding a lagoon, and its beauty is the beauty of the sea and sky and the varied colour of the lagoon and the grace of the cocoa-nut trees; but the place where Strickland lived had the beauty of the Garden of Eden.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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