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Answer : ATOLL
An atoll is a coral reef enclosing a lagoon. Atolls consist of ribbons of reef that may not always be circular but whose broad configuration is a closed shape up to dozens of kilometers across, enclosing a lagoon that may be approximately 50 meters (160 feet) deep or more.
Most of the reef itself is a submarine feature, rising from the abyssal floors of the ocean to just beneath high-tide level. Around the rim along the top of the reef there are usually low, flat islands or more continuous strips of low, flat land. Some of these islands have been settled by oceanic peoples like the Maldivians, Polynesians, and Micronesians for many centuries.
The origin of atolls has always fascinated sailors and naturalists, who early appreciated that, although reef-building organisms inhabit only the shallowest depths of the sea (about 100 meters [330 feet]), the reefs rose from much deeper. The modern explanation of atolls incorporates the theory of Charles Darwin, who suggested that atolls represented the final stage of a continuing upgrowth of reef around a sinking extinct volcanic island that had long since disappeared from view
More Clues
- EELS Some reef dwellers
- SCUBA Do some reef exploration
- ATOLL A tax on some reef
- SEA ANEMONES Reef dwellers
- ANEMONES Tentacled reef dwellers
- CORAL Main constituent of some reefs
- RANSOMED ‘Redeemed in exchange for some Rand ‘
- ANEMONE Sea — (reef dweller)
- MORA EL Sharp-toothed reef dweller
- MORAY Tropical reef-dweller
- EMPEROR ANGELFISH Striped reef dweller
- EEL Coral-reef dweller
- POLYP Reef dweller
- SPONGE Holey reef dweller
- DAMSELFISH Colorful coral reef dweller
- PALOLO Old man laughing out loud with old reef dweller
- HOPI Some cliff dwellers
- PETS Some shelter dwellers
- BATS Some cave dwellers
- SONS Blue-nursery dwellers
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