Atolls

In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Life, the photojournalism magazine created by Henry R. Luce (loos), was first published. during World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin (MAH'-kihn) atolls from the Japanese. most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, was set to expire by day's end. ❋ Unknown (2008)

US forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Waterworld imagines have banded together to form floating villages called "atolls" - dreary fortifications designed to keep out the marauding riffraff who terrorize the post-apocalyptic seascape. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The third class are called atolls; each is irregularly ring-shaped and almost entirely encloses a sheet of water, called a lagoon. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)

It was found to be one of those peculiar circular reefs surrounding a lagoon, called atolls, which exist in some quantity in the Pacific. ❋ Kitson, Arthur (1907)

In 1943, during World War II, _________ forces seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese. ❋ By KATHERINE SCHULTEN (2011)

The girls were from Fakaofo, another of Tokelau's atolls, which is 200 kilometres - a daylong boat ride - away. ❋ Dan Robson (2010)

These "atolls" contain a circular basin of yellowish green, clear, shallow water, while outside is the dark blue deep water of the ❋ John Lubbock (1873)

Our lime and cement were made from coral, of which there were extensive reefs round the Island of Singapore, and some few "atolls" (a Cingalese word), or special coral islands. ❋ W. D. Bayliss (1869)

“If they’re ring-shaped and enclose a lagoon they’re called atolls, but if they’re just a lump of reef risen above the sea they’re called cays. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)

Few countries in the world face as immediate a threat from climate change as the Republic of Maldives, a low-lying group of atolls in the Indian Ocean whose coastline is eroding and whose water supplies are now being infiltrated by saltwater from the sea. ❋ Juliet Eilperin (2010)

Less than 11,000 people live on Tuvalu's series of low-lying coral atolls. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Cholesterol, coconuts, and diet on Polynesian atolls: a natural experiment: The Pukapuka and Tokelau Island studies, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1981;34:1552-1561 ❋ Dr. Joseph Mercola (2011)

Our only interest is peaceful settlement, but we do have one fundamental interest aside from the rocks and the atolls, and that is that the sea lanes that proceed through the South China Sea are international sea lanes subject to freedom of navigation. ❋ Unknown (2010)