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What (who) is Atoll - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
ATOLL
![View of the coast of [[Bikini Atoll]] from above](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site-115017.jpg?width=200 "View of the coast of [[Bikini Atoll]] from above")
![Aerial view of [[Bora Bora]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bora Bora (16542797633).jpg?width=200 "Aerial view of [[Bora Bora]]")
![[[Kaafu Atoll]] in [[Maldives]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guriadhoo-2019-aerial-view-Luka-Peternel.jpg?width=200 "[[Kaafu Atoll]] in [[Maldives]]")
![[[Los Roques Archipelago]] in Venezuela, the largest marine national park in Latin America,<ref name="inparques1" /> from space. Courtesy [[NASA]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Los Roques.png?width=200 "[[Los Roques Archipelago]] in Venezuela, the largest marine national park in Latin America,<ref name=\"inparques1\" /> from space. Courtesy [[NASA]]")
![[[Raa Atoll]] in [[Maldives]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maamigili Island Raa Atoll.jpg?width=200 "[[Raa Atoll]] in [[Maldives]]")
![[[NASA]] satellite image of some of the [[atolls of the Maldives]], which consists of 1,322 islands arranged into 26 atolls](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maldives.visibleearth.nasa.jpg?width=200 "[[NASA]] satellite image of some of the [[atolls of the Maldives]], which consists of 1,322 islands arranged into 26 atolls")
![[[Nukuoro]] from space. Courtesy [[NASA]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nukuoro ISS013-E-28610.jpg?width=200 "[[Nukuoro]] from space. Courtesy [[NASA]]")
![Map from [[Charles Darwin]]’s 1842 ''[[The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs]]'' showing the world’s major groups of atolls and coral reefs](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/On the structure and distribution of coral reefs BHL40453231.jpg?width=200 "Map from [[Charles Darwin]]’s 1842 ''[[The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs]]'' showing the world’s major groups of atolls and coral reefs")
![Penrhyn]] atoll](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Penrhyn Aerial EFS 1280.jpg?width=200 "Penrhyn]] atoll")
![[[Tarawa Atoll]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/South Tarawa from the air.jpg?width=200 "[[Tarawa Atoll]]")
![Aerial overview of the [[Wake Island]] atoll, part of the [[Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wake Island air.JPG?width=200 "Aerial overview of the [[Wake Island]] atoll, part of the [[Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument]]")
![Darwin's theory starts with a [[volcanic island]] which becomes extinct](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atoll forming-volcano.png?width=200 "Darwin's theory starts with a [[volcanic island]] which becomes extinct")
![As the island and ocean floor subside, coral growth builds a [[fringing reef]], often including a shallow lagoon between the land and the main reef](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atoll forming-Fringing reef.png?width=200 "As the island and ocean floor subside, coral growth builds a [[fringing reef]], often including a shallow lagoon between the land and the main reef")
![As the subsidence continues the fringing reef becomes a larger barrier reef farther from the shore with a bigger and deeper [[lagoon]] inside](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Atoll forming-Barrier reef.png?width=200 "As the subsidence continues the fringing reef becomes a larger barrier reef farther from the shore with a bigger and deeper [[lagoon]] inside")
atoll
['at?l, ?'t?l]
¦ noun a ring-shaped reef or chain of islands formed of coral.
Origin
C17: from Maldivian ato?u.
atoll
(atolls)
An atoll is a ring of coral rock, or a group of coral islands surrounding a lagoon.
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Atoll (disambiguation)
An atoll is a type of island.
Atoll or ATOLL may also refer to:
- Atolls of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean
- Atolls Rural LLG in off the coast of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
- Atoll (band), a French progressive rock band
- atoll (programming), a function in C programming language
- ATOLL programming language, used for automating the checking and launch of Saturn rockets
- Antarctic Technology Offshore Lagoon Laboratory, a floating oceanographic laboratory
- Vympel K-13 (NATO reporting name), a Soviet and Russian air-to-air missile
Examples of use of Atoll
1. Previous launches have been from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
2. British time) from a U.S. base on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean‘s Marshall Islands.
3. The Christmas Island atoll was midway between Australia and the west coast of America.
4. Corrects site of previous interceptor launches in sixth to Kwajalein Atoll from Ft.
5. Eustatius, asked the government what it could do to protect the atoll, said Paul C.