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Author Stoddart, D.R.
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Henderson Island (Southern Polynesia) : summary of current knowlege

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Fosberg, F.R.

Sachet, M.H

Stoddart, D.R.

The tropical seas are liberally sprinkled with coral islands. Many of them are associated with continents and large continental islands, in relatively shallow water, rising from continental shelves. Many, also, are in deep water - atolls, barrier reef islets round high islands, almost atolls', tops of drowned karsts, and a few moderately elevated atolls. These last are among the most fascinating of all, scientifically.

Almost-atoll of Aitutaki.

Biodiversity Conservation

Gibbs, P.E.

Stoddart, D.R.

A collection of plants from Fais, Caroline Islands

Biodiversity Conservation

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Evans Michael

Fosberg F.R.

Fais (Tromelin) is an elevated coral island, surrounded by interrupted cliffs 15-20 meters high, lying some 140 miles east of Yap Island, at latitude 9'46' N, longitude 140'31' E in the western Caroline Islands. It has an area of 2.8 square km, and has a population of about 300 people, Micronesians, speaking a dialect of the Ulithi-Woleai tongue. As with many such raised coral islands, valuable calcium phosphate deposits occur on Fais, the greater portion of which was removed and exported during the period of Japanese rule (1914-1945).

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