aldabra atoll造句

• This island forms the northwestern edge of the Aldabra atoll.
• The Aldabra giant tortoise lives on the remote Aldabra atoll, one of the Seychelles group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
• It is the third largest island of the Aldabra Atoll in the Aldabra Group of islands, 1150 kilometers southwest of the country's capital, Victoria.
• The ship then went to conduct oceanographic research around Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles archipelago, but when it returned to Victoria for bunkering Monday the captain was arrested.
• The "'Aldabra giant tortoise "'( " Aldabrachelys gigantea " ), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world.
• The Aldabra giant tortoise is primarily found inhabiting grasslands and swamps on the islands of the Aldabra atoll, which forms part of the Seychelles island chain in the Indian Ocean.
• However, the Aldabra atoll has now been protected from human influence after having been declared a World Heritage Site, and is home to some 152, 000 Aldabra giant tortoises, the world's largest population of this species.
• Dawn started her professional career as a zoology lecturer in England ( 1968 1973 ) before taking a year's absence from her position as a visiting scientist at the Royal Society of London Research Station Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean.
• BirdLife International declared Aldabra as an Important Endemic Bird Area ( IBA ) in 2001 on account of its large seabird colonies under categories A1, A2, A4i, A4ii and A4iii, covering an area of overlapping with the special reserve area of of Aldabra Atoll.
• The archipelago hosts two UNESCO World Heritage Sites _ the Aldabra atoll, home of the world's largest population of giant tortoises, and the Val de Mai indigenous palm forest on Praslin Island known for the rare black parrot and the coco-de-mer, the coconut that is the world's heaviest seed.
• In the early 1800s, concessions given to individuals almost destroyed the forests and tortoise habitats in many islands in Seychelles; on Aldabra Atoll, in view of its remoteness and rugged topography, only small areas of forests were cleared for agricultural operations ( mostly coconut plantations ) but the tortoises were intensely captured for meat and trade.