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A current problem in french Polynesia is the radiation and the radiation tsunami left by the nuclear bomb testing. One solution to this problem is to evacuate to another island. According to Wikipedia, the text states that the island of Raiatea has a population of 12,545 and is the second largest island in French Polynesia. This shows that with the radiation tsunami coming the citizens of Mururoa are able to move onto Raiatea without causing overpopulation and problems for the people on Raiatea…

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives is a South Asian island country which located in the Indian Ocean. Maldives lies on southwest of India and Sri Lanka. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to the Addu City in the South. The Maldives is one of the world’s most geographically dispersed countries, and the smallest Asian country by both land area and population. The Maldives has an area of less than 300 square kilometers and a total coastline of…

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery theorizes that Earhart survived a rough landing on a remote atoll in the Pacific but died soon after. The theory also goes that while stuck on the reef , Earhart and Noonan unsuccessfully attempted to radio for help. Their plane was eventually washed into the ocean by rising tides, leaving them alone on the uninhabited…

13.8333°S, 171.7500° W American Samoa is made of seven islands which are Tutuila, Tau, Olosega, Ofu, Aunuu, Rose Atoll, and Swains Island. All of the island's main biomes are the tropical rainforest. American Samoa was not established as a national park until 1993 when the park signed a 50-year lease agreement with eight participating villages in Tutuila, Tau, Ofu, Aunuu, and Rose Atoll until 2002; Congress approved an expansion of the park with the island Olosega that incorporates two…

hard surfaces such as submerged rock along edges of continents or islands. As corals expand and grow, reefs adopt one of the characteristic structures. An atoll forms if a fringing reefs forms around a volcanic island that subsides under sea level as coral grows upward. They are usually circular or oval and have a central lagoon. Barriers and atolls are some of the oldest habitats in the ocean. Coral reefs are found in over a hundred countries. Most are found between the Tropics of Capricorn…

The Battle of Midway: Lessons Learned In the months following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan, the United States found itself embroiled in conflict in two theaters of war; in Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic as well as in the Pacific. Through the preceding years, the United States cautiously escalated its support for the Allied countries in the European theater with Anglo-American partnership programs such as the Lend-Lease Act and Destroyers…

operated in Maldives and they serve the entire Maldives with the largest banking network system. Over 250000 thousand customers, 66 ATMs in 19 atolls, cash agents in 95 islands, 3500 POS machines, 2000 dhoni banking trips, 16000 pension payments, over 8 billion loans to individual and business, 600 million government loan scheme and over 839 jobs with 1/3 in atolls BML provides modern banking services and products to meet the customers’ expectations to fulfill their financial requirement. The…

The Pacific Ocean Paradise documents the reefs of five islands named Flint, Vostok, Starbuck, Malden, and Millennium Atoll. With a small group of people that go on a mission to raise awareness and show “ ocean lovers” what is going on at these reefs of the islands. The leader of the group is Dr. Enric Sala who is a research scientist and Natural Geographic Explorer. He sees Tahiti as an almost impossible goal to preserve and is looking for untouched places where no humans have been. They say it…

takes on a characteristic structure, either fringing, barrier or atoll. Fringing reefs are the most common. The create borders along shorelines and islands. Barrier reefs also go around shorelines, but from further out to sea. They are separated from the land by a lagoon of open, deep water. If a fringing reef forms around a volcanic island that is completely below sea level while the coral continues to grow upward, an atoll forms. Atolls are usually a circle or oval shaped, with a lagoon in the…

Title The Effects of Global Warming on the Oceans Marine Life Research Ocean acidification has occurred slowly since the industrial revolution, as mankind began to add excess amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. CO2, one of the greenhouse gases produced in excess, was absorbed by the ocean, and the effects of this gas are devastating to marine life and their ecosystems. The CO2 produces carbonic acid, which lowers the pH of saltwater, and this in turn creates a harmful environment…