http://www.flickr.com/photos/sujaa/tags/destination/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:42:05 -0700 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:42:05 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm1.staticflickr.com/207/buddyicons/8287839@N03.jpg?1246473727#8287839@N03 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sujaa/tags/destination/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sujaa/3815283458/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/sujaa/">S U J A</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sujaa/3815283458/" title="Coral reef from above"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3616/3815283458_2cd16a1989_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Coral reef from above" /></a></p> <p>The word atoll comes from the Dhivehi (an Indo-Aryan language spoken on the Maldive Islands) word atholhu (Dhivehi: އަތޮޅު, [ˈət̪ɔɭu])OED. Its first recorded use in English was in 1625 as atollon. However, the term was popularised by Charles Darwin (1842, p. 2), who described atolls as a subset in a special class of islands, the unique property of which is the presence of an organic reef. More modern definitions of atoll are those of McNeil (1954, p. 396) as &quot;...an annular reef enclosing a lagoon in which there are no promontories other than reefs and islets composed of reef detritus&quot; and Fairbridge (1950, p. 341) &quot;...in an exclusively morphological sense, [as] ...a ring-shaped ribbon reef enclosing a lagoon in the center.<br /> source: Wikipedia</p> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:42:05 -0700 2007-09-01T10:10:39-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (S U J A) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/3815283458 Coral reef from above <p>The word atoll comes from the Dhivehi (an Indo-Aryan language spoken on the Maldive Islands) word atholhu (Dhivehi: އަތޮޅު, [ˈət̪ɔɭu])OED. Its first recorded use in English was in 1625 as atollon. However, the term was popularised by Charles Darwin (1842, p. 2), who described atolls as a subset in a special class of islands, the unique property of which is the presence of an organic reef. More modern definitions of atoll are those of McNeil (1954, p. 396) as &quot;...an annular reef enclosing a lagoon in which there are no promontories other than reefs and islets composed of reef detritus&quot; and Fairbridge (1950, p. 341) &quot;...in an exclusively morphological sense, [as] ...a ring-shaped ribbon reef enclosing a lagoon in the center.<br /> source: Wikipedia</p> S U J A life vacation holiday male destination maldives sunnyside atoll dhivehi rajje dhivehin