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Volume 14 Australasia - dana ward's homepage

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THE KEELING ISLANDS. 55coralline tower, slowly built up by the polyps as the base of the structure slowlysubsided. Since the preparation of the first chart of the group, indications ofupheaval have been observed The beach has been raised and enlarged, some ofFig'. 19. Keelino Isl/Ujd.s.Srale 1 : 135,000.'96°B0-Eosb ohGreenwlcEmSands and reefs exposedat low water.Depths.6,400 Feet andupwards.the channels have been closed, and lagoons formerly communicating with the opensea are now inaccessible to shipping.The atoll, which is interrupted by numerous breaches, and which opens outbroadly towards the north, consists of some twenty elongated islets occupying athigh water a total space of about six square miles. The only spontaneous growths

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