ROBERT S. SiANDEN 
Hull Atoll Description 
Draft 
of 172“10 T W, It is a typical circular atoll with 
The atoll is about 14 miles around 
Hull Atoll is in the ^PhoeniK Island group and 
is situated 4°29' S. of the Equator at a longitude 
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coconut palms # Eslongat ed on its east-west axis, 
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surroundittg a large lagoon of varying depths up to 
20 fathoms. 
bmmng 6 miles long and 3 miles across at its widest 
point. OThore are n^people. ^ ^ ^ 
Of the 21 islands 2 are better than 
5 miles ldng. These 2 islands and a third/ between 
span better than of the distance around the atoll 
and comprise 85 % of the total land area. The re¬ 
maining of the atoll is made up of am small islands 
less than a quarter of a mile across. 
The only passage^ deep enough for the smallest 
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b etween the last two small islands in the middle 
of the north shores. Here there is a narrow chan- • 
nek about 15 feet wide and 3 feet deep. 
The western most large island is covered with 
f coconut pirns and there are only an handfull of palms 
( on the rest of the atoll. 
The rainfall is variable but general lack of lwater 
) has retarded the break down of the coral rock and 
)^ v^slowed (the growth of^ve gitation and /soil development 
^ <? ^Although^the vegitation is sometimes too thick to 
(P\j/ walk through, at least 1/3 of it is dead. In some 
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places only the largest Pissonia trees are still 
living. 
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