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Molokini atoll was formed about 15,000 years
ago, to break out of the crater with lava. Within this natural rocky crescent
are found more than 250 species of fish and 38 species of coral, which are no
longer found throughout the Pacific Ocean.
On the island there is absolutely no ground, and
around towering cliffs just silent. That is why the surrounding waters and are
considered the cleanest in all the Hawaiian Islands. Molokini atoll itself rises
only 50 meters above the water surface, and its surface is seen only sparse
vegetation so noisy colony krasnogrudyh frigates, which in the absence of
predators (here live only a few dozen rabbits) nest on its cliffs to save
wilderness guide of Hawaii in 1987 a special resolution of the prohibition of
people landing on the atoll of Molokini.
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Compared to other Hawaiian islands, the
visibility under water off the coast of Molokini up to 50 meters, and the water
itself is unusually clean and clear. For 50 years, this heavenly atoll with
emerald waters used for training military aircraft bombing the U.S. Navy. Bombed
this tropical paradise on the conscience of Americans, and as a result of a
multi-ton iron threw all of the surrounding area around the atoll.
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