Crossword-Solution: ATOLLS 6 letters, 106 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Alesana SELUKA (since October 1989) Member of: ACP, C (special), ESCAP, SPARTECA, SPC, SPF, UNESCO, UPU Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: (vacant) US diplomatic representation: none Flag: light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the outer half of the flag represents a map of the country with nine yellow five-pointed stars symbolizing the nine islands *Tuvalu, Economy Overview: Tuvalu consists of a scattered group of nine coral atolls with poor soil.

Such is, at least, Darwin’s theory, who thus explains the formation of the _atolls_, a superior theory (to my mind) to that given of the foundation of the madreporical works, summits of mountains or volcanoes, that are submerged some feet below the level of the sea.

All through the New Hebrides and the Solomons and up among the atolls on the Line, during this period under a tropic sun, rotten with malaria, and suffering from a few minor afflictions such as Biblical leprosy with the silvery skin, I did the work of five men.

There is nothing, perhaps, more mysterious in nature than this fact of the existence of a living land: a land that repairs itself, when injured, by vital processes, and resists the eternal attack of the sea by vital force, especially when we think of the extent of some of these lagoon islands or atolls, whose existences are an eternal battle with the waves.

PART II: THE PAUMOTUS CHAPTER I—THE DANGEROUS ARCHIPELAGO—ATOLLS AT A DISTANCE In the early morning of 4th September a whale-boat manned by natives dragged us down the green lane of the anchorage and round the spouting promontory.