Many small island nations, for instance, have abundant coconut trees, which serve as sources of wood, coconut, copra and palm oil for the local population.

例如，许多小岛屿国家拥有大量椰子树，为当地居民提供了木材、椰子、干椰子肉和棕榈油。

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The same went for the basketball-size coconut crab (see picture), the world's biggest land crab, of which Christmas Island has the world's largest population.

篮球大小的椰子蟹(coconut crab)也是科学家们研究的对象，椰子蟹是世界上最大的陆地蟹类，圣诞岛上的椰子蟹数量是世界上最多的。

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This photo was taken in the lagoon at Coconut Island, Hawaii.

这照片是在夏威夷的椰子岛泻湖获得的。

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Coconut Island, in the bucolic, slow-paced province of Kerala, is a tropical paradise where your only neighbors are the herons, owls and crabs that populate this remote coconut plantation.

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Two vendors at the Colombo coconut market said that with imports about to enter the Indian Ocean island, prices were already beginning to fall.

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