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Eniwetok Atoll, the target assigned to Admiral Hill's task group, lies 330 nautical miles northwest of Kwajalein.8 It is a typical Central Pacific coral atoll with a circular reef surrounding a lagoon, which at its widest point is seventeen miles from east to west and twenty-one miles from north to south.
Atolls are at risk of becoming uninhabitable as sea levels rise, Marshall islands president will tell summit. This young boy on Funafuti atoll in Tuvalu may grow up to see his home beneath the sea without action on climate change. Photograph: Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.