How to pronounce “atoll” in English

So you don't just get big coral heads like this, corals also build entire islands.This is an atoll, which is a special kind of island found in the tropics.It is special because that island is built entirely out of coral.

We donít do a lot of land purchases in our organization but this is on Glover's Reef Atoll which is one of the only Atolls in the Atlantic Ocean.So a Coral Atoll is a ring island with no center, the center has subsided away so itís only coral growth keeping it above the sea.In order to protect this place; which is one of the most important places in the Caribbean; which if you remember the beginning itís one of the most important places in the entirety

There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols.of sites throughout the Atoll; thereís some statistical, no thereís very much statistical significance because itís been designed by our ecologists.

And by the way, see these white spots here?That's the atolls sugar.This is the natural MSG.

You can see there the Rosette, the instrument I told you.And we went to this small atoll in the north, which is Takaroa.

You can see it extending all the way down from Bacalar Chico to Sapodilla Keys.Glover's Reef is just the offshore atoll.You can see it's all in green, meaning it's all part of a marine reserve.

and voyaging, these are sailors who can name 250 stars in the night sky.They can sense the presence of distant atolls beyond the visible horizon by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of the vessel.These are sailors who, in the darkness inside the hull, can distinguish as many as five different sea swells moving through the canoe, distinguishing those caused

We advise the Marshall Islands, which is a low-lying island state in the middle of the Pacific, which is extraordinarily vulnerable to sea level rise.The average height of it's atolls are 70 centimeters above the sea.They're already suffering extensive flooding and drought, a double whammy of global warming, and are looking at the destruction of their country

Finally, we now have another.Just off the coast of Moorea is a small atoll, which used to be owned by Marlon Brando and is currently owned by the Brando estate.And there, we have a partnership with an eco resort, and we have a small research station on this atoll.

And there, we have a partnership with an eco resort, and we have a small research station on this atoll.So we have a high island and an atoll very close to one another, so two very exceptional natural research laboratories for work.So I'm going to just give a little bit of context on these islands, because I'm going to come back to them later in the talk.

And then, you know, they began telling me why it was China's.They found pottery shards on this island-- or this atoll, or this rocky reef-- that went back to the Ming dynasty.It, therefore, was China.

There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols.As a result almost a third of the atoll is fully protected and the rest is extremely well managed fishery, uncommon for the rest of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols.And this is one island on the large atolls so there is several actual tourism outfits on the other parts of the island that we will be able to find ways for people to have some

- This is a bikini gauge for measuring blast over pressure.And it's called the bikini gauge in reference to the bikini atoll because a analog blast over pressure measurement device was used in the nuclear tests in the bikini atoll.It has a number of different diameter holes and a film inside.

So they tell me.So finally, we made it sound like the atoll ..

So they tell me.I'm like, I guess the atoll music goes there.

and creating a number of different places.And just about a month ago, Turneffe Atoll right here wasjust declared as the newest marine reserve in Belize.

conducting these surveys? These are the only in-water surveys for marine turtles in Belize.The basic idea of the turtle surveys is we transect the entire atoll with a number of different line transects.

So they tell me.It needs to sound more like it's played on an oasis in the middle of an atoll.

She, out of college, I think it was, went into the military to crack codes.out in the middle of nowhere, there's an atoll that's tactically important.

But you'll also see them at Glover's Reef.And so it's our second-most common turtle that we have out there in the atoll.And then, the most iconic turtle for coral reefs is a hawksbill turtle.

So just a quick background of WCS in Belize to get us to the point where we'll talk about the trip thatwe're thinking about. This is an aerial view of Glover's Reef atoll where now one of our base of operations is.WCS has been operating in Belize since the early 1980s.

ecosystem. So this is an island in Belize which WCS has owned for about 20 years.We donít do a lot of land purchases in our organization but this is on Glover's Reef Atoll which is one of the only Atolls in the Atlantic Ocean.So a Coral Atoll is a ring island with no center, the center has subsided away so itís only coral growth keeping it above the sea.

Just off the coast of Moorea is a small atoll, which used to be owned by Marlon Brando and is currently owned by the Brando estate.And there, we have a partnership with an eco resort, and we have a small research station on this atoll.So we have a high island and an atoll very close to one another, so two very exceptional natural research laboratories for work.

Moorea in 3 million years is going to look something like, which is, in fact, Bora Bora.And in 5 million years, it will look something like this, an atoll.The important part as a natural system for study is that we're at this end of a natural biodiversity gradient.

There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols.And so the end of April we will be going out and require and need people to help us run some transects and help monitor the entirety of the atoll for its resident sea turtle population.

There needed to be a fisheries base there for patrols.Our team, we have a boat, weíll take you out to the atoll, so about 40 miles off the coast of Belize and then weíll take you back at the end as well.

like-- what we regard as North Vietnam was like.After Vietnam, Polynesia. We went to the remote coral reef atolls of the Tuamotus and looked at what life was going to be out--what life was going to be like out here in these remote places where people live just a couple of feet or a few feet above sea level.