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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.
Drilling revealed about 1,400 metres (4,600 feet) of reef material. At least two writers have attacked the young age position using the argument that this coral atoll must have taken a very long time to form 1,2 âthey estimate 138,000 and 176,000 years respectively as the minimum age for Eniwetok.ustraliaâs beautiful Great Barrier Reef is the worldâs longest coral reef. It extends from near Papua New Guinea down Australiaâs east coast for about 2,000 kilometres. In a previous Creation magazine (Vol.