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this is abuch of islands located close together

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ring shaped coral reef or closely placed coral islands

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"The Great Chagos Bank is the largest atoll in the world" and most of the atoll is located under water and this atoll takes up a massive area of 12,642 square kilometers.

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By Gregory Sousa on January 29 2018 in Environment

Most of the Great Chagos Bank is located underwater.

An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef or series of coral rims that encircle a lagoon either partially or wholly. Atoll and lagoons form a rim around an island that offers protection to the central island. The corals of the atoll sit on top of the rim of an extinct volcano called seamounts which have eroded beneath the waters. Atoll islands are mostly low-lying with an elevation of less than five meters. Atolls are only found in the tropical and subtropical warm waters of the oceans and seas. Most of the world's great atolls are located in the Pacific Ocean, especially in the islands of Tuamotu, Caroline, Marshall, and the Coral Sea.

Examining 5 of the World's Largest Atolls

Great Chagos Bank

The Great Chagos Bank is the largest atoll in the world, taking up a massive area of 12,642 square kilometers (4,881 square miles). Most of this atoll is located underwater, with the exception of a few small islets which have been designated as strict nature reserves by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) since 1998. It was first surveyed by Robert Moresby in 1839, who also surveyed the aforementioned North Bank. Great Chagos Bank is currently administered by the British Indian Ocean Territory, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.

Reed Bank

The Reed Bank is the second largest atoll in the world at 8,866 square kilometers (3,423 square miles) in size. It is located in the South China Sea to the northeast of the Spratly Islands. In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration determined that the area was within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. However, the economic rights to the area, which is rich in gas and oil deposits, is still disputed between several nations. This is similar to the nearby Spratly Islands, which are contested by Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Exploitation of the aforementioned fossils fuels at Reed Bank has been suspended over the last few years, mainly due to disputes between the Philippines and China.

Macclesfield Bank

Macclesfield Bank is the third largest atoll in the world at 6,448 square kilometers (2,489 square miles) in size. It is located in the middle of the South China Sea between China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The atoll is named after the HMS Macclesfield, a British warship which ran aground around the area in 1804. Currently, the atoll is claimed by both China and Taiwan, although the Chinese are the ones that currently administer it.

North Bank (Ritchie Bank)

North Bank is the fourth largest atoll in the world at 5,800 square kilometers (2,239 square miles) in size. The atoll is located in the Indian Ocean, just to the northeast of the island nation of Madagascar. It, along with Macclesfield Bank and Reed Bank, are atolls that are completely submerged underwater. North Bank, also called Ritchie Bank, sits just north of the Saya de Malha Bank, which is the largest submerged ocean bank on Earth. It was first surveyed back in 1839 by Royal Indian Navy Commander Robert Moresby (1794-1854). The atoll is part of the island nation of Mauritius.

Cay Sal Bank (Placer de los Roques)

Cay Sal Bank, also known as Placer de los Roques, is the fifth largest atoll in the world. It is 5,226.73 square kilometers (2018 square miles) in size and located in the Strait of Florida between the United States and Cuba. Besides being one of the biggest atolls on Earth, it is also the third largest of the submerged carbonate platforms that make up the Bahama Banks. Cay Sal Bank was first visited by Spanish explorers in 1511. In recent decades, the area has been used to monitor drug smugglers and refugees attempting to flee from Cuba.

The Largest Atolls In The World

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By Gregory Sousa on January 29 2018 in Environment An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef or series of coral rims that encircle a lagoon either partially or wholly. Atoll and lagoons form a rim around an island that offers protection to the central island.

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a barred area made of soft rock that has been eroded in to buitiful areas

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makoshika state park is the biggest state park and has a lot of these butiful stuctures you see here in the picture, and they have 38 camping sites and i think a movie threater

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a body of water making a indent in the shoure line

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hudson bay is the biggest bay by 125,000 sq mi

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a hill that has no other hills touching it and is rising taller than the surrounding land

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the big southern Butte is the biggest and youngest butte standing and is 300,000 years old

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deep vally that is formed by a stream of water

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the grand Canyon is a great exsample thats located in arizonia,  the colorado Canyon is a mile deep and almost 18 miles wide!

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a peacie of land that juts out into a body of water, like, big body of water ushally

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a cape is a peacie of land that extends out in to the water,

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a cave is a hole in the earth(minecarft vs realite 101=no cave spiders in real life, i think, um)

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the worlds largest cave in THE WORLD has been found, the son doong cave has 1.6 million cubic meters in volume.

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a highway for water to flow through

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a high place with a very steep way down

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high cliff state park is the only state-owned area by wisconsons largest lake

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one of the main landmassies on the world

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united states, president, biden (at time of 2021)

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basicly a flat plain and diveges water to another mouth of water

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one of the most fertile regions in the world, so it earned the nickname the Green Delta.

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very dry place that can only have things that can live with almost no water

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antarctica is a desert! and is as big as 5,500,000 square miles!

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a hill made of sand, thats formed by the wind

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the federico kirbus dune is the words biggest dune at a hight of 1234 meters!

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a long nrrow stream of water with steep cliff and is ushally formed by glachers

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the scoresby sound is the biggest fjord somtimes extending 4,760 ft

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a large area coverd with trees or underbrush

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the boreal forest is the biggest forest and is as big as 1.5 billion acres

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hot spring that jets out a jet of hot steam

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this is the yellow stone steamboat geyser and it goes as high as 300 feet

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a big chunk of ice formed from compacted snow

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the Lambert Glacier is 50 miles wide and  over 250 miles long

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a part of the sea enclosed by land

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the size of this gulf is aproxamently 1.6 million km²

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a lift in the earths sufface

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Cavanal Hill is the biggest hill at 727 miles above sea level

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a big pecie of ice from a glacier thats now floating on water

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A-76 is currently the biggest ice burg at 1,668 square miles

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a peaice of land seperated from others with water and is not big anough to be called a continent

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green land is the biggest island and is Home to 56,000 people. green land also has there own local goverment

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a small peacie of land, has water on both sides, conecting 2 big peacies of land

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panama is the biggest istumus and measures 676 km in length

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a wild peacie of land covered in overgroth

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the amazon rain forest is the biggest rian forest in the world by 2,100,000 sq miles

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a place with shallow water seperated from the sea with sand dunes

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the new caledonia lagoon is the biggest lagoon in the world at 4,400,000 hectares big

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a body of salt water of decent sizes, surrounded by land

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caspian sea is the biggest lake at 143,244 mi²

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a peacie of low wet land, mostly tree less

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The Florida Everglades is the biggest marsh in the world, and covers 4,200 square miles

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a natural elavation of the earth that is ushally 2,000 feet tall or taller

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Mount Everest is the tallest moutian in trems of elavation

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a big body of salt water that covers almost 3 forths of the earths sufface

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the pacific ocean is the biggest ocean at 63,800,000 square miles big

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a peacie of land surounded by water conected to the main land with a istus