The vehicle left its launch pad on the Kwajalein Atoll at just after 2230 GMT.
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Rose Atoll has the highest proportion of live coral cover anywhere in the world.
About 19 students from the Baa Atoll Education Centre were selected to conduct the survey.
Situated roughly equidistant from Hawaii, Japan and Australia, the atoll encircles the world's largest lagoon.
Expedition organizers say the boat will sail past the Midway Atoll en route to Australia.
Kwajalein atoll, in the Marshall Islands, bristles with radar, optical sensors, telemetry-receiving stations and other ballistic-missile testing equipment.
Using Kwajalein atoll as a base hugely increased SpaceX's logistics costs and complicated every aspect of launch preparations.
Eydhafushi is the capital of Baa Atoll with a total population of 2, 718.
After many adventures and some frighteningly high seas they reached French Polynesia on July 30, skirting close to the isolated Puka Puka atoll.
When Stevie dropped out in Hawaii, Jason carried on spending 73 days alone at sea to reach the tiny coral atoll of Tarawa.
The Tikehau Pearl Beach Resort, part of a Polynesian chain of nine hotels, opened in 2001 and is still the atoll's only place to stay.
But some scholars and aviation experts challenge the historic group's assertion that the crew managed to land on Nikumaroro and survive on theuninhabited atoll for some time.
"My agent Atoll Still called me yesterday (Wednesday), " he said.
The 38ft vessel, believed to be privately owned, was about 2, 000 miles west of the Hawaiian island of Oahu and 500 miles west of the Midway Atoll at the time.
The case was sent for prosecution after police were called to investigate a dead baby buried on the island of Feydhoo in Shaviyani Atoll, in the north of the country.
Also within the atoll-like reef system are picturesque islands that are mid-ocean pit stops for a variety of migrating seabirds, giving twitchers almost as much reason as divers to be excited about Apo Reef.
This was because of an agreement between the UK and the US that the islands, of which Diego Garcia was the principal atoll, should be available to the US government for defence and communication purposes.
But the army says it has learned from earlier mistakes made at the Johnston Atoll chemical-weapons incinerator in the Pacific, where destruction of chemical weapons was said to have caused damage to the local ecosystem.
Using the Aldabra atoll as an example, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley (CEO, Seychelle Islands Foundation) noted that no other international protected areas system holds its sites accountable for its conservation efforts as does the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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When the Navy conducted its atomic bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll in 1946, more than 90 people volunteered to man the ships stationed in the target area, so that scientists could gather data about the biological effects of the blasts.
The company's Pegasus XL rocket was flown to a launch altitude of about 39, 000 feet by a specially configured L-1011 "Stargazer" jetliner taking off from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, near the equator about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
The first group of islands in the Bahamas chain, Bimini -- with the small islands of North Bimini and South Bimini at its core -- is only about 50 miles from Miami, but the slow-and-easy lifestyle on the historic atoll feels like a world away.
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