Atoll, the Glossary
An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.[1]
Table of Contents
111 relations: Aldabra, Aragonite, Aranuka, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Ari Atoll, Atolls of the Maldives, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, Baratal limestone, Bassas de Pedro, Bermuda, Bikini Atoll, Calcite, Caribbean, Caroline Islands, Cay, Chagos Archipelago, Charles Darwin, Chesterfield Islands, Chuuk Lagoon, Chuuk State, Colombia, Coral, Coral island, Coral reef, Coral Sea, Coral Sea Islands, Detritus, Dolomite (rock), Dolomitization, Ducie Island, Edgeworth David, Elizabeth Reef, Fringing reef, Funafuti, Great Chagos Bank, Gulf Stream, Guyot, Hermatypic coral, Huvadhu Atoll, India, Indian Ocean, Indo-Aryan languages, Indonesia, Islet, John Murray (publishing house), Kaafu Atoll, Karst, Kiribati, Kiritimati, ... Expand index (61 more) »
- Atolls
- Biogeomorphology
- Islands by type
Aldabra
Aldabra, the world's second-largest coral atoll (the largest is Kiribati), is located southeast of the continent of Africa.
Aragonite
Aragonite is a carbonate mineral and one of the three most common naturally occurring crystal forms of calcium carbonate, the others being calcite and vaterite.
Aranuka
Aranuka is an atoll of Kiribati, located just north of the equator, in the Gilbert Islands.
Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
The Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina), or The Raizal Islands, is one of the departments of Colombia, and the only one located geographically in Central America.
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Ari Atoll
Ari Atoll (also called Alif or Alifu Atoll) is one of the natural atolls of the Maldives.
Atolls of the Maldives
The Maldives are formed by 20 natural atolls, along with a few islands and isolated reefs today which form a pattern stretching from 7 degrees 10′ North to 0 degrees 45′ South.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.
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Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
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Baratal limestone
Baratal limestone, also known as the Baratal Formation, is a limestone formation in the Altai Republic of Russia that formed during the Cambrian and Ediacaran, presumably on top of an ancient seamount that was later accreted to a continent. Atoll and Baratal limestone are atolls.
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Bassas de Pedro
Bassas de Pedro, also known as Manjappar or Pedro Bank, is a submerged bank or sunken atoll belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India, with a distance of south of the city of Delhi.
Bermuda
Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Bikini Atoll
Bikini Atoll (or; Marshallese: Pikinni), known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a central lagoon.
Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caroline Islands
The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.
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Cay
A cay, also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Atoll and cay are islands by type.
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Chagos Archipelago
The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
Chesterfield Islands
The Chesterfield Islands (îles Chesterfield in French) are a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the Coral Sea, northwest of Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia.
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Chuuk Lagoon
Chuuk Lagoon, previously Truk Atoll, is an atoll in the central Pacific.
Chuuk State
Chuuk State (also known as Truk) is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Coral island
A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus and associated organic material. Atoll and coral island are atolls and islands by type.
Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Atoll and coral reef are coastal and oceanic landforms and Oceanographical terminology.
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.
Coral Sea Islands
The Coral Sea Islands Territory is an external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, north-east of Queensland, Australia.
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Detritus
In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material.
Dolomite (rock)
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.
Dolomitization
Dolomitization is a geological process by which the carbonate mineral dolomite is formed when magnesium ions replace calcium ions in another carbonate mineral, calcite.
Ducie Island
Ducie Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands group, which also includes Pitcairn, Henderson and Oeno islands.
Edgeworth David
Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934) was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.
Elizabeth Reef
Elizabeth Reef, located at, is a coral reef in the Coral Sea.
Fringing reef
A fringing reef is one of the three main types of coral reef.
Funafuti
Funafuti is the capital of the island nation of Tuvalu.
Great Chagos Bank
The Great Chagos Bank, in the Chagos Archipelago, about south of Maldives, is the largest atoll structure in the world, with a total area of.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
Guyot
In marine geology, a guyot, also called a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount) with a flat top more than below the surface of the sea.
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Hermatypic coral
Hermatypic corals are those corals in the order Scleractinia which build reefs by depositing hard calcareous material for their skeletons, forming the stony framework of the reef.
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Huvadhu Atoll
Huvadhu, Suvadive, Suvaidu or Suvadiva is the atoll with the most islands in the world.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Islet
An islet is a very small, often unnamed island. Atoll and islet are coastal and oceanic landforms and islands by type.
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John Murray (publishing house)
John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.
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Kaafu Atoll
Kaafu Atoll is the code name given to an administrative division in the Republic of Maldives which consists of the geographical atolls of Kaashidhoo Island, Gaafaru, North Malé Atoll and South Malé Atoll.
Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
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Kiribati
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati (Ribaberiki Kiribati),.
Kiritimati
Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands.
Kolhumadulu Atoll
Kolhumadulu Atoll (also known as Thaa Atoll) is an administrative division of the Maldives.
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Kure Atoll
Kure Atoll (translation; label) or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at.
Kwajalein Atoll
Kwajalein Atoll (Marshallese: Kuwajleen) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses. Atoll and lagoon are coastal and oceanic landforms and Oceanographical terminology.
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Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep is a union territory of India.
Latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.
Lifou
Lifou is a commune of France in the Loyalty Islands Province of New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean.
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Lifou Island
Lifou Island, historically spelt Lifu or Lefu in English, and known as Drehu in the local language, is the largest, most populous and most important island of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve
Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve is a former marine protected area covering an area of 8440 km2 in the Australian Coral Sea Islands Territory that was incorporated into the new Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve in December 2012.
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Los Roques Archipelago
The Los Roques Archipelago (Spanish: Archipiélago de Los Roques) is a federal dependency of Venezuela consisting of approximately 350 islands, cays, and islets in a total area of 40.61 square kilometers.
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Macclesfield Bank
Macclesfield Bank is an elongated sunken atoll of underwater reefs and shoals in the South China Sea.
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Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
Maldivian language
Dhivehi or Divehi (ދިވެހި), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the South Asian island country of Maldives and on Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, a union territory of India.
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Maro Reef
Maro Reef (Hawaiian: Nalukākala - "surf that arrives in combers") is a largely submerged coral atoll located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
Middleton Reef
Middleton Reef is a coral reef in the Coral Sea.
Namonuito Atoll
Namonuito Atoll, also called Namonweito, Weito, or Magur Islands, is the largest atoll of the Federated States of Micronesia and of the Caroline Islands with a total area of, unless one considers the still larger Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon as a type of atoll in an early stage of development.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or Leeward Hawaiian Islands are a series of islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest of the islands of Kauai and Niokinaihau.
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Nukuoro
Nukuoro is an atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Ontong Java Atoll
Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua (formerly Lord Howe Atoll, not to be confused with Lord Howe Island) is an atoll in Solomon Islands, and one of the largest atolls on earth.
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Outer Islands (Seychelles)
The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles (archipelago) is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank (Seychelles Plateau) which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Penrhyn atoll
Penrhyn (also called Tongareva, Māngarongaro, Hararanga, and Te Pitaka) is an atoll in the northern group of the Cook Islands in the south Pacific Ocean.
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).
Pseudo-atoll
A pseudo-atoll, like an atoll, is an island that encircles a lagoon, either partially or completely. Atoll and pseudo-atoll are atolls and coastal and oceanic landforms.
Raa Atoll
Raa Atoll (also known as Northern Maalhosmadulu Atoll or Maalhosmadulu Uthuruburi) is an administrative division from the Maldives.
Raised coral atoll
A raised coral atoll or uplifted coral atoll is an atoll that has been lifted high enough above sea level by tectonic forces, protecting it from scouring by storms and enabling soils and diverse – often endemic – species of flora and fauna to develop. Atoll and raised coral atoll are atolls and coastal and oceanic landforms.
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Rangiroa
Rangiroa (Tuamotuan for 'vast sky') or Te Kokōta (Cook Islands Māori for 'the Hyades star cluster') is the largest atoll in the Tuamotus and one of the largest in the world (smaller than Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands and Huvadhu in the Maldives).
Reef knoll
A reef knoll is a landform that comprises an immense pile of calcareous material that had previously accumulated on an ancient sea floor.
Rennell Island
Rennell Island, locally known as Mugaba, is the main island of two inhabited islands that make up the Rennell and Bellona Province in the nation state of Solomon Islands.
Rosalind Bank
Rosalind Bank, also called Rosalinda or Rosa Linda Bank (Placer de Rosalinda), is a large, completely submerged bank or atoll in the western Caribbean Sea.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.
Sabalana Islands
The Sabalana Islands (Kepulauan Sabalana) are an atoll in the Flores Sea in Indonesia, lying just north of the Lesser Sunda Islands, closer to Sumbawa than Sulawesi.
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Saya de Malha Bank
The Saya de Malha Bank (also the Sahia de Malha Bank, modern Portuguese: saia de malha, English: mesh skirt) or Mesh Skirt Bank, is one of the largest submerged ocean banks in the world, a part of the vast undersea Mascarene Plateau.
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Seamount
A seamount is a large submarine landform that rises from the ocean floor without reaching the water surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet, or cliff-rock.
Seychelles
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean.
Smith, Elder & Co.
Smith, Elder & Co., alternatively Smith, Elder, and Co. or Smith, Elder and Co. was a British publishing company which was most noted for the works it published in the 19th century.
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, Islands of Destiny, Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is a country consisting of 21 major islands Guadalcanal, Malaita, Makira, Santa Isabel, Choiseul, New Georgia, Kolombangara, Rennell, Vella Lavella, Vangunu, Nendo, Maramasike, Rendova, Shortland, San Jorge, Banie, Ranongga, Pavuvu, Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Tetepare, (which are bigger in area than 100 square kilometres) and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia.
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.
Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands (Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin p; Kepulauan Spratly; Quần đảo Trường Sa) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.
Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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Thiladhunmathi
Thiladhunmathi (also known as Boduthiladhunmathi) is the largest atoll in the Maldives, the Miladhunmadulu group is also naturally a part of Thiladhunmati Atoll, comprising the southern half of the atoll.
Tokelau
Tokelau (known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
Tuamotus
The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands (Îles Tuamotu, officially Archipel des Tuamotu) are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Tuvalu
Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia.
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Volcanic island
Geologically, a volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin. Atoll and volcanic island are islands by type.
Walter George Woolnough
Walter George Woolnough (15 January 1876 – 28 September 1958) was an Australian geologist.
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William Johnson Sollas
Prof William Johnson Sollas PGS FRS FRSE LLD (30 May 1849 – 20 October 1936) was a British geologist and anthropologist.
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See also
Atolls
Biogeomorphology
- Atoll
- Bioerosion
- Biogeomorphology
- Coastal biogeomorphology
- Coral reefs
- Grass mountain
- Mound-building termites
- Palsas
- Phytogeomorphology
- Tiger bush
- Windthrow
Islands by type
- Artificial island
- Artificial islands
- Atoll
- Atolls
- Barrier island
- Barrier islands
- Cay
- Coral island
- Coral islands
- Floating island
- Floating islands
- Inland island
- Islet
- Lake island
- River island
- Shoal
- Skärgårdsnamn
- Skerries
- Skerry
- Tidal island
- Tidal islands
- Tied island
- Uninhabited islands
- Vanishing island
- Volcanic island
- Volcanic islands
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoll
Also known as Antecedent karst model of atoll formation, Antecedent karst theory of atoll formation, Atholhu, Atoll reef, Atolls, Coral atoll, Darwin Point, Largest atolls, List of largest atoll lagoons, List of largest atolls, Subsidence model of atoll formation, Subsidence theory of atoll formation.
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