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Перевод: atoll

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атолл ; коралловый остров

Тезаурус:

1. Since last year's season of tests, one cyclone, Reva, has swept right across the atoll and on over the nearby Gambier islands.
2. THE RESUMPTION of nuclear tests by France at the Mururoa atoll in the Pacific, last month, has renewed fears that plutonium and other pollutants from past tests may be spreading throughout the Polynesian islands.
3. But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller's H-bomb went off.
4. It vapourized Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, turning it into the many-coloured mushroom cloud, 25 miles high and 100 miles wide, which became the symbol of anxiety for mankind.
5. About 20 minutes flight from Papeete (the capital of Tahiti) is the famous "private atoll of Marlon Brando" Tetiaroa, perhaps the most photogenic of the populated islands.
6. Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace's skipper, McTaggart, rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985.
7. At the atoll, Polynesians worry that the radioactivity could be spread beyond Mururoa by storms such as Reva.
8. The romantic days which have seen the bold David McTaggart striding the Pacific main in the Greenpeace ketch Vega to challenge the French bomb testers at Moruroa atoll may be passing simply because, in that particular case, the military reasons for testing are passing.
9. They waded ashore on the Polynesian atoll of Raroia on 7 August 1947 just over three months after leaving Peru.
10. They recalled that in 1958 Quakers had made an unsuccessful attempt to interrupt atmospheric testing of H-bombs at Bikini atoll in the Pacific.
11. FRANCE is to suspend nuclear tests at its South Pacific atoll site, Mururoa, this year, M Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister, said in his inaugural speech to parliament yesterday.
12. She was coming to the end of months on the barren atoll of Pity Me when she heard the moth rattle against her window, between tacked-up scarlet and black batik fabric and the glass.
13. Four days earlier the USA had detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.