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Atolls by country. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. Subcategories. This category has the following 32 ...
[2] [3] Atolls are located in warm tropical or subtropical parts of the oceans and seas where corals can develop. Most of the approximately 440 atolls in the world are in the Pacific Ocean. Two different, well-cited models, the subsidence model and the antecedent karst model, have been used to explain the development of atolls. [4]
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent ) that is surrounded by water. [ 1 ] Many island countries are spread over an archipelago , as is the case with Indonesia , Japan , and the Philippines —these countries consist of thousands of islands.
Atolls by country (32 C) Atolls by sea or ocean (4 C) A. Atolls of Asia (8 C) D. Disputed atolls (22 P) O. Atolls of Oceania (7 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Atolls"
The names of the natural atolls of the Maldives are the names given to them by the first settlers of the country or the names derived from these. The atolls are usually named after islands that belong to the atoll and perhaps those that were the first sites of settlements in each atoll, or the main island of each atoll.
This is a list of countries by number of islands, with figures given for the numbers of islands within their territories. In some cases, this figure is approximate and may vary slightly between sources depending on which islands are counted. The criteria for inclusion appear to differ considerably between the countries so they are not necessarily directly comparable. Different languages use ...
Tuvalu is a string of coral atolls, scattered over hundreds of miles in the Pacific Ocean, located midway between Australia and Hawaii. ... Well-known examples include bit.ly, used by the weblink ...
Atolls located in the Pacific Ocean. Subcategories. This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total. C. Atolls of the Cook Islands (6 C, 9 P)