Bioherm type comprises tower reef, patch reef, massive reef, platform-edge reef and atolls etc.

生物礁类型有塔礁、补丁礁、块礁、台地边缘礁、环礁。

The Tuamotu Archipelago is part of French Polynesia, and forms the largest chain of atolls in the world.

土阿莫土群岛隶属于法属波利尼西亚，是世界上最大的环礁岛群。

Kingman Reef is part of a chain of Pacific atolls and islands that straddles the Equator south of Hawaii.

金曼暗礁是一系列的太平洋环状珊瑚礁和岛屿的一部份跨坐于夏威夷的南部和赤道之间。

Atafu is just five miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.

Atafu仅有5英里宽，是托克劳群岛的三个环礁中最小的一个，领土属于新西兰。

The eclipse drew an arc across the open sea and uninhabited atolls, making its main landfall on remote Easter Island.

日食在开阔的海域和无人居住的环礁划出一条弧线，日落则在偏远的复活节岛。

More than 10, 000 species, including 1, 500 types of fish and 200 kinds of birds, live on the reef's cays, atolls, and islands.

000多物种，其中包括1500种鱼类和200多种鸟类，生活在其沙洲，环礁和岛屿上。

Kingman Reef is part of a chain of Pacific atolls and islands (called the Line islands) that straddles the Equator south of Hawaii.

金曼暗礁是一系列的太平洋环状珊瑚礁和岛屿的一部份(被称为线群岛)跨坐于夏威夷的南部和赤道之间。

This chain of 1, 000 islands is just a series of coral atolls that are barely above sea level, meaning the waters are excellent for diving and snorkeling.

这一连串的1000个岛屿只是一系列略高于海平面的珊瑚环礁，也就是说，海水非常适合潜水和浮潜。

That is a question about which the Republic of the Marshall Islands - a Micronesian nation of 29 low-lying coral atolls - is now seeking expert legal advice.

这对马绍尔群岛共和国，一个由29块低珊瑚环礁组成的密克罗尼西亚人的国家来说，就是一个现实的难题了。

The country dumps upwards of 330 tons of rubbish on the island every day, a figure attributed largely to the tourist industry on which the chain of atolls relies.

马尔代夫每天在该岛上倾倒超过330吨垃圾，垃圾成山大部分原因是岛国马尔代夫依赖旅游产业。

The Maldives, which wants to be carbon-neutral by 2020, is one of the most vulnerable countries to a rise in sea levels because its low-lying islands and atolls would be submerged.

马尔代夫希望到2020年达到碳中和目标，这是受海平面上升威胁最严重的国家之一，其低洼岛屿和环礁岛将被淹没。

The vast area of waters, dotted with partially submerged atolls and reefs, contain some of the world's busiest shipping lanes and are thought to hold large deposits of oil and natural gas.

这片面积广阔的水域，半淹的环礁和暗礁星罗棋布，世界上一些最繁忙的航道经过这里，并被认为有大量的石油和天然气储存。

The atolls are composed of live coral reefs and sand bars, situated atop a submarine ridge 960 kilometers long that rises abruptly from the depths of the Indian Ocean and runs from north to south.

环礁由活着的珊瑚礁和沙洲组成，生长在印度洋深处从南到北长贯960公里的陡峭海脊之上。