The Philippine Star newspaper, quoting an unnamed Filipino fishing operator, said China began deploying ships to Quirino Atoll, also known as Jackson Atoll, after a fishing vessel recently ran aground in the area.
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Twenty-three of these tests were conducted at Bikini Atoll and 211 near Enewetak Atoll, but fallout spread throughout the entire Marshall Islands, exposing the indigenous people there to dangerous levels of radiation.
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The oldest atoll, Kure, is about 30 million years old.
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Take the Maldives, an atoll nation in the Indian Ocean.
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A White Tern bird is seen on Midway Atoll, Sept.
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It was shot on Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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China had sent as many as seven ships to Quirino Atoll, also known as Jackson Atoll, in recent weeks, said Eugenio Bito-onon Jr, the mayor of nearby Pagasa Island in the Spratly Islands.
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Coral reefs in the lagoon of the Toau atoll, French Polynesia.
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Laamu Atoll in the Maldives may remind you of "Rogue One."
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A hydrogen bomb detonated above Bikini Atoll on May 21, 303.
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Tuesday's test was launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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American forces had just invaded Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific.
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"They have planned a huge project for Faafu Atoll," he said.
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" The Maldivian president, Abdulla Yameen, has denied that the atoll will be sold, and the Saudi embassy said it had no intention "of investing in a megaproject or buying an island or atoll in the Maldives.
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Midway Atoll (CNN)Shock, combined with a little wonder at the unnatural.
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Source: Aviation WeekUSAF MX missile reentry vehicles over Kwajalein atoll South Pacific.
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Enewtak Atoll was home to just 664 people in the 2011 census.
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Satellite imagery of Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, taken in 2016.
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More than 70 years later, Bikini Atoll has still not completely recovered.
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Dr. Hansen found about 180 fossils near a pond on the atoll.
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"There are numerous types of birds breeding on Wake Atoll," Brown said.
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Roughly 4,1003 troops helped clean up the atoll between 1977 and 1980.
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China may also be interested in gaining access to Rongelap Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands, as a means to keep tabs on the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Test Site at the remote but strategically located Kwajalein Atoll.
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China allowed Philippine vessels to fish near Scarborough Shoal, a disputed tidal atoll.
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After his death in 2004, the atoll became the property of French Polynesia.
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The largest of the tests exploded over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
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H-bomb test; radioactive clouds at the Bikini Atoll on May 21, 1956.
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Obama will travel to Midway Atoll next week to mark the vast expansion.
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NSF Diego Garcia sits on an atoll in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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Left: Photographer unknown, Hydrogen-bomb explosion, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean, 20183.
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The precise details of the Faafu Atoll deal have not been kept secret.
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He's focused on a remote atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
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He's focused on a remote atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
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Mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, 1946.
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In "Dogs Go Wolf", two little girls are abandoned on a blistering fishing atoll.
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"Baker Shot", a nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll in 703.
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The mention of Jaluit Atoll falls in line with Japanese legends about Earhart's fate.
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A mushroom cloud rises above Bikini Atoll following an atomic bomb test in 19573.
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Bikini Atoll specifically was displaying levels of gamma radiation far above what was anticipated.
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One of these coral reefs is at Palmyra Atoll, an island south of Hawaii.
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We live in what is rapidly resembling the cultural equivalent of the Bikini Atoll.
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In 1769, Captain James Cook sailed past the atoll on the ship HMS Endeavour.
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Kuredu Island is the only resort on the island of Kuredu, in Lhaviyani Atoll.
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In 1954, on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the United States tried that approach.
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In Lisianski Atoll, which lies within the Papahānaumokuākea monument, about one-and-a-half square miles of reef bleached and died in 22016 — the worst bleaching event scientists had seen at the atoll, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last October.
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Earlier last week, the former president was seen snorkeling around the outer atoll of Fakarava.
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President George W. Bush created the Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll national marine monuments.
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The picture stems from the National Archives and was labeled "Jaluit Atoll," a Japanese territory.
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Within a community of bottlenose dolphins at Rangiroa Atoll, however, something inexplicable is going on.
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Chris Jordan's documentary Albatross, filmed on the Midway Atoll, will be released live on albatrossthefilm.
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Rennell, the world's largest raised coral atoll, is the most geographically isolated among the Solomons.
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Their stay on the remote atoll of Nikumaroro will last for eight days, he said.
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He grew up on the Marshallese atoll of Likiep and attended the University of Hawaii.
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The reentry vehicle traveled about 4,85033 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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The reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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They were bound for the township of Betio on an atoll some 288km away (179 miles).
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Unlike Kiribati or other atoll nations, the sceptred isle would not be wiped off the map.
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It was taken on Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, which was then controlled by Japan.
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Last month, Chinese vessels drew protests by blocking Philippine fishing boats from reaching a disputed atoll.
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The director Michael Arden populates his atoll with a cast including Philip Boykin and Lea Salonga.
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The missile flew about 4,200 miles across the Pacific, reaching Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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MIDWAY ATOLL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama snorkeled on Thursday in the electric-blue water off Midway Atoll, a remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate challenges and the United State's dominance in the Pacific since its World War Two victory there.
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At Tarawa Atoll, the primary American objective was to win the airfield on the thin Betio Island.
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At the height of the Korean War, more than 100 airplanes landed on the atoll each day.
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On Sunday, the couple shared photos from the luxurious Soneva Fushi resort in the Maldives' Baa Atoll.
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The Obamas are hunkering down on Tetiaroa, a remote atoll just north of Tahiti in French Polynesia.
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At least 167 people living on the coral Bikini atoll were forced to relocate to desolate Rongerik.
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The tribunal cited China's construction of a large artificial island on an atoll known as Mischief Reef.
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A portion of Midway Atoll is seen from Air Force One, with President Barack Obama aboard, Sept.
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President Barack Obama bows as he greets workers and volunteers at Henderson Field on Midway Atoll, Sept.
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Five years ago, this was mostly an arc of underwater atoll populated by tropical fish and turtles.
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The ferry hit an atoll after setting sail, and repairs were carried out to the propeller shaft.
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Kudadoo Maldives is in the Lhaviyani Atoll, a group of precious islands north of Malé International Airport.
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Located on an atoll, Bird Island is surrounded by clear blue water, hard sand flats and coral.
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That&aposs probably the the bigger purpose of putting it into the atoll ... to support surface combatants.
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The most expensive, a private atoll in French Polynesia called Nukutepipi, is about $1 million a week.
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Yet on the tiny Micronesian atoll of Pingelap, 4% to 10% of the population has this syndrome.
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Several species of damselfish nestle in a cauliflower coral at Rose Atoll Marine National Monument in American Samoa.
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Laulima O Ka Moana, as the expedition was called, took NOAA to a region around the Johnston Atoll.
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The dark, eerie world of Midway Atoll is, at times, a standing-room-only scene for albatross chicks.
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One of the world's most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted.
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You begin to imagine the Trump presidency and you want to start a commune on a remote atoll.
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The US tested the first hydrogen bomb, nicknamed George, on Enewetak Atoll in the South Pacific in 19923.
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Much of the exterior shots were filmed on Laamu Atoll, a remote series of islands in the Maldives.
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Darmansyah, a former chief of Bohesilian village on Maratua, said residents of the atoll were still mainly fishermen.
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President Barack Obama tours Midway Atoll on a golf cart with Marine National Monuments Superintendent Matt Brown, Sept.
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Mr. Begaye survived the Battle of Tarawa, a costly offensive on a Japanese-held Pacific atoll in 1943.
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Researchers are now cruising toward Nikumaroro, a coral atoll that is part of the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati.
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And his critics have doubts as to whether Ms. Earhart ever made it to the atoll at all.
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One of the Navy&aposs two submarine tenders visited Ulithi Atoll in the Western Pacific earlier this month.
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Meet the Nuclear Weapons NerdsCastle Bravo, the first high-yield thermonuclear weapon U.S. design test at at Bikini Atoll.
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The re-entry vehicle traveled about 6900,2628 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the release said.
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The re-entry vehicle traveled about 28503,22020 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the release said.
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Exactly 2000 years have passed since the first atomic bombs were dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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The runway in question is located on Maafaru, which is part of the Noonu Atoll islands in the Maldives.
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A 2008 Bikini Atoll biodiversity survey found that while 70 percent of coral species have rebounded since nuclear testing.
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This deserted coral atoll, known as Little Curaçao, is a tropical oasis accessible by a two-hour catamaran tour.
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It's also an atoll where nuclear weapons were tested between 1946 and 1958, so the answer is TEST SITE.
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Well, there's a development, though not from the National Geographic team using forensic dogs to scour a Pacific atoll.
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In 1954, the U.S. conducted further tests of the hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Space Fence, an especially powerful radar on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, will help to keep an eye out.
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The atoll is a potential flashpoint in the disputed South China Sea and is claimed by Beijing, Manila and Taipei.
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A patrol boat picked up the survivors and took them to Nomwin atoll in the Hall Islands following their rescue.
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Shipboard expeditions to the South Pacific near Oeno atoll in the Pitcairn chain were generally clouded if not rained out.
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On March 1, 1954, the Pentagon conducted Castle Bravo and detonated a 15 megaton thermonuclear warhead over the Bikini Atoll.
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The main avionics systems are the Sh121 Multifunctional Integrated Radio Electronic System (MIRES) and the 101KS Atoll Electro-Optical System.
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The mushroom cloud from the "Ivy Mike" nuclear test over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 20.9, 275.
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So water in the atoll was 10 degrees warmer than normal, and never cooled enough to allow coral to recover.
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The Midway Atoll is located in the North Pacific Ocean—the farthest you can get from any continent on Earth.
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The fish, discovered 300 feet deep in the waters off Kure Atoll, reminded scientists of Obama's campaign logo, CNN reported.
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The Rose Atoll, a combination of underwater and land in American Samoa, was designated by former President Bush in 2009.
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They believe it's a sign of health in this protected atoll, where bleaching, overfishing and disease are not really threats.
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"Adaptation can only go so far when your nation is going under water," says Mr Lynas of the atoll countries.
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He said he had been told that it involved selling the atoll, although he was not privy to the details.
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Local fishermen had spotted poachers near the atoll, and our patrol was meant to show a police presence in the area.
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They depict her takeoff in New Guinea, her crash landing at Mili Atoll, and her plane's recovery by the Koshu Maru.
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In the Bikini Atoll nuke tests, the Navy kept the carrier's guns attached to see how they fared in the blasts.
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But for the 13,000 residents of Ebeye Island in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, the aftermath of missile testing is very real.
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He thinks it's just a photo showing people hanging out on the wharf on Jaluit Atoll -- part of the Marshall Islands.
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Diego Garcia, a staging post on an Indian Ocean atoll crucial for operations in the Persian Gulf, may be submerged too.
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