Taking into account the economic constraints, the distance from viable markets, and the small size of the atoll, nothing apart from preliminary studies was ever undertaken to carry out this project.

North Keeling Island is an atoll consisting of just one C-shaped island, a nearly closed atoll ring with a small opening into the lagoon, about wide, on the east side.

A small atoll in the Maldives

It is a site of cultural significance to the indigenous people of Kwajalein atoll, as are most of the small islands throughout the atoll.

Nuclear refugees from the atolls irradiated by the American tests were also moved to Ebeye, and in 1964, when the United States initiated its Anti-ballistic missile testing program with the Nike-Zeus program in Kwajalein Atoll, authorities moved also the remaining Marshall Islanders who lived scattered on their land throughout the atoll to the small shantytown of Ebeye which had been erected with plywood housing by American contractors.

She put into the small island of Mopelia, also known as Maupihaa, a coral atoll some 10 km ( 6 mi ) in diameter in the Society Islands, some 450 km ( 280 mi ) from Tahiti.

It is a small natural atoll 22 km in length.

This atoll is oval in shape and small, its greatest length being 15. 5 km.

Gahaafaru Atoll also known as Gaafaru Atoll or Gaafarufalhu is a small atoll at the eastern end of a large elliptical reef that has proved disastrous to many vessels with the wrecks of Aracan ( 1873 ), SS Seagull ( 1879 ), Clan Alpine ( 1879 ), Erlangen ( 1894 ), Crusader ( 1905 ) and Lady Cristine ( 1974 ).

Rasdhu Atoll also known as Rasdhukuramathi Atoll (' Ross Atoll ' in the Admiralty Chart ) is a small atoll with an almost round lagoon.

Vattaru Atoll ( Falhu ) is an egg-shaped reef or small atoll about 8. 5 km in length.

Fuvahmulah (' Fua Mulaku ' in the Admiralty Chart ) is a large single island ( by itself a small detached atoll ) which lies in the Equatorial Channel.

In the distant past Fuvahmulah was a small coral atoll whose southern end was open at a spot called Diyarehifaando and the inside of the island was a saltwater lagoon forming a natural harbour.

Although it is rather small by Maldive standards, it is the largest emerged atoll in the Chagos.

Bikati and Bikatieta islets occupy a corner of the reef at the extreme northwest tip of the atoll, bordering what may be a second small lagoon to the north of the main lagoon.

Prior to the early 1950s, a large number of present-day residents of Ebeye lived on small islands throughout Kwajalein Atoll, which is in fact the largest atoll in the world, boasting close to 99 islands surrounding a massive lagoon.

There is a small bushy island called Île Diable on the NW of the atoll.

Fangataufa ( Fangatafoa ) is a small, low, narrow, coral atoll in the eastern side of the Tuamotu Archipelago.

There is a small sand bar around the atoll, awash at high tide, with a small entrance into the flat lagoon with a somewhat deep harbor.

Suvadive ( Dhivehi: ސ ު ވ ަ އ ި ދ ީ ބ ު) is based on the ancient name for Huvadhu Atoll, which is by far the largest in the small southern atoll group if fact Huvadhu

Beechey's expedition did not land in the atoll, but members of the crew navigated around it in small boats.

The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean ( or Îles éparses de l ' océan indien ) consist of four small coral islands, an atoll, and a reef in the Indian Ocean, and have constituted the 5th district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands ( TAAF ) since February 2007.

Burkina Faso lies mostly between latitudes 9 ° and 15 ° N ( a small area is north of 15 °), and longitudes 6 ° W and 3 ° E.

The small church ( dedicated to the Holy Trinity ) that lies to the east of the village closed some years ago.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located within Fornax, and the Fornax Cluster, a small cluster of galaxies, lies primarily within Fornax.

A proving mortar — a type of small cannon used to gauge the strength of the gunpowder — used by the factory still lies by the side of the road to the nearby pottery.

The Zulu impi is popularly identified with the ascent of Shaka ( also rendered T ' chaka ), ruler of the relatively small Zulu tribe before its explosion across the landscape of southern Africa, but its earliest shape as a purposeful instrument of statecraft lies in the innovations of the Mwetha chieftain Dingiswayo, according to some historians ( Morris 1965 ).

It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon from the east at Dawson.

Along the coast lies Karfas ( Καρφάς ), a sandy beach, which along with the nearby village of Ayia Ermioni ( Άγια Ερμιόνη ) is now the main tourist centre, with a number of large and small hotels.

Its small remaining support lies in the " steel belt " of the industrialized south.

In the book the author gives an account of a voyage to the archipelago of St. Kilda and its proximity to Rockall: "... and from it lies Rokol, a small rock sixty leagues to the westward of St. Kilda ; the inhabitants of this place call it ' Rokabarra '.

The southeastern area lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro highlands and is composed of shortgrass treeless plains with abundant small dicots.

Nearby the Botanical Gardens of the city's university, in a small forest called Elysium, lies the geographical centre of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

The stomach lies between the esophagus and the duodenum ( the first part of the small intestine ).

Mozia ( Sicilian: Mozzia ) is a small island, formerly known as Motia and San Pantaleo in the Trapani province, in Sicily, Italy, lies in the Stagnone Lagoon, and is generally included as a part of the comune of Marsala.

The Leidse Hout park, which contains a small deer park, lies on the northwest border with Oegstgeest.

The Massif des Maures ( Mountains of the Moors ) is a small chain of mountains that lies along the coast of the Mediterranean in the Var Department between Hyères et Fréjus.

For instance, the Ridge and Valley, which lies in the northwest corner of the state, includes limestone, sandstone, shale and other sedimentary rocks, which have yielded construction-grade limestone, barite, ocher and small amounts of coal.

As a result of the drivers not knowing exactly what lies ahead, the lower traction available on dirt roads, and the driving characteristics of small cars, the drivers are much less visibly smooth than circuit racers, regularly sending the car literally flying over bumps, and sliding the cars out of corners.

The main centres include: Rocca Pietore alongside the Marmolada Glacier, which lies on the border of Trentino and Veneto, the small towns of Alleghe, Falcade, Auronzo, Cortina d ' Ampezzo and the villages of Arabba, Urtijëi and San Martino di Castrozza, as well as the whole of the Fassa, Gardena and Badia valleys.

Another small island, Bentenjima, lies near the Japanese shore of the strait.

Located along the A49 road about 12 miles north of Leominster, it lies within a bend of the River Teme, on its eastern bank, forming an area of and centred on a small hill.

Another objection lies in the fact that the people who are most likely to recite the Pledge every day, small children in schools, cannot really give their consent or even completely understand the Pledge they are taking.

The town lies athwart a small canyon, which has been eroded in the course of years by a small stream, the Gravina.

The fault was first identified in Northern California by the UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas.

In central California is the small town of Parkfield, California, which lies along the San Andreas Fault.