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atoll: see coral reefs.

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Access and Alienation: The Promise and Threat of Stewardship on Mokil Atoll (Human Organization)

Halfway to paradise: private enterprise teams up with government managers to preserve the Midway Atoll. (Animals)

Ostracoda from Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean, and proposal of a new tribe, Bruuniellini (Myodocopina: Cylindroleberididae) (1). (Pacific Science)

After the bombs: residents of atoll bombed 'for the good of mankind' are still getting a raw deal.(NUCLEAR TESTING)(Bikini Island) (New Internationalist)

A world away. (waste disposal on Johnston Atoll) (U.S. News & World Report)

On the Margins of Sustainability, Prehistoric Settlement of Utrok Atoll, Northern Marshall Islands.(Book Review) (Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific)

The military's mess: Johnston Atoll, the army's 'model' chemical disposal facility, is an environmental disaster. (E)

Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll (Anthropological Quarterly)

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