Exempel på atoll

• In nineteenth-century accounts of travel among the islands and atolls, one comes across passage after passage about the dress and ornamentation of the inhabitants.

• But we are also warned of just how fragile the community's integrity actually is, as atoll inhabitants face rising sea levels through global warming.

• This examination of literacy, in turn, provides a framework for understanding the larger ethnographic reality of the atoll.

• Antarctica - was it a gigantic atoll or a large continent covered by ice?

• So limited are the staples materials and real estate of an atoll-dweller that less toast and tea, beans, bread and chips which are the staples of poor people's diets.

• The study will, inter alia, assess the geological stability and hydrology of the atolls.

• Ant is a privately-owned atoll and its owner is a strict conservationist.

• I believe that research is taking place already on some of these atolls in connection with the production of fertilisers.

• Apart from anything else, those who cause explosions in coral atolls had better be careful what they do.

• Precautions would be taken if an airfield were built on the atoll.

• But we may be wholly underestimating the future importance of many of these apparently insignificant and remote atolls.

• Let us suppose that a bad egg slips through the net and is installed as governor of one of our few remaining imperial atolls.

• Probably most important is the protection the reefs give to the coast, particularly the coasts of atolls or other small islands.

• The underground method which they have chosen has far greater environmental dangers to that atoll than if they had chosen atmospheric tests.

• The main source of supply was surface water accumulated over a very long period below the atoll.