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Atoll vs Iland - What's the difference?

atoll | iland |

As nouns the difference between atoll and iland

is that atoll is atoll while iland is (label).

atoll

English

(wikipedia atoll)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of island consisting of a ribbon reef that nearly or entirely surrounds a lagoon and supports, in most cases, one to many islets on the reef platform. Atolls have a unique geology, so not all islands with a reef and a lagoon are atolls.

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    iland

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label)
  • *1790 , Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature :
    • This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.
  • *1858 , Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure :
    • [...] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland' of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this ' iland had the name Pomitaine.

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