Some1,500 people lived in three villages on the atolls.
这些岛上有三个村落，住着约1500人。

Atolls and coral reefs from the stony coral skeleton form.
环状珊瑚岛和珊瑚礁由石珊瑚的骨骼形成。

Many thousands of islands and atolls are entirely coastal in nature.
几千个岛屿和环礁性质上完全是沿海的。

In the atolls the main source of water is from wells and rainwater tanks.
在环礁上, 主要的水源是井和雨水蓄水池。

In addition, fisheries sector is often the only source of employment in the atolls.
此外，渔业部门经常是环礁的唯一就业来源。

The remote sensing composite information entropy and types of Nasha coral reef atolls
南沙珊瑚环礁的遥感复合信息熵与类型

However， a oncetiny setaside of money has become the Kiribati Revenue Equalisation Reserve Fund， a 520m investment portfolio that has grown to about nine times the tiny atolls GDP.
建立基金以替代日益减少的自然资源，这样的想法还不存在。