Lakshwadeep is known as coral island because it has a huge deposit of different types of corals.
A ring shaped coral island found for from land is called an atoll.
Low islands are formed by a coral.
An encircling coral reef or sandbar can create a shallower area of water near an island, called a lagoon.
An atoll is an island made of coral that circles a lagoon fully or partially. They are found in the eastern hemisphere.
Coral are small animals that build colonies in warm tropical waters. The coral reef is the ecoskelton of the animal. Black coral is just one color of coral ecoskelton.
Laccadive Islands.
Lakshadweep is made from tiny marine animals known as polyps. The skeleton of these creature after they die are known as coral. Since Lakshadweep contains many polyps it is known as coral islands
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The only North Island in Australia is a tiny coral island in the coral archipelago known as the Houtman Abrolhos. It is located in the Indian Ocean, off the midwest coast of Western Australia.
The Coral Island was created in 1857.
This is known as an atoll.
lakshadweep islands are called coral islands as polyps, over the years when die forms layers of land. it is a natural and slow phenomena. thus, like this Lakshadweep is formed.
well, today when my social mam was explaining me about lakshwadeep island ...she told us that it was formed by small creatures names sea polyps and like that it went on .. This Is True ... =)
The main language spoken in Lakshadweep islands is Malayalam. It is also the official language of the Union Territory.