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The reef islands have a different structure to the atolls, and are described as reef platforms as they are smaller tabular reef platforms that do not have a salt-water [[lagoon]],<ref name="PSK1">{{cite web| last = Paul S. Kench, Murray R. Ford & Susan D. Owen |title= Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations (Supplementary Note 1) |publisher= Nature Communications |page=|year = 9 February 2018|url= http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1| accessdate=11 February 2018}}</ref> although they have a completely closed rim of dry land, with the remnants of a lagoon that has no connection to the open sea or that may be drying up as the result of coral debris filling the lagoon.<ref name="CH-GA">{{cite journal|ref=Hedley|last1= Hedley |first1= Charles|title= General account of the Atoll of Funafuti|url= http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/16686/487_complete.pdf |year= 1896 |journal= Australian Museum Memoir |volume=3|issue=2|pages=1–72 |doi= 10.3853/j.0067-1967.3.1896.487 }}</ref> For example, [[Niutao]] has two lakes, which are brackish to saline; and are the degraded lagoon.
The smallest island, [[Niulakita]], which is the 9th island in the Tuvaluan archipelago, was not continuously inhabited. From the late 19th century it had been in private ownership. It was bought by the [[Gilbert and Ellice Islands]] Colony administration in 1944. The administration gave people from [[Vaitupu]] permission to settle Niulakita. However, in 1949 a later administration decided to have Niulakita settled by the community from [[Niutao]], which was considered to be overpopulated. The removal of the Vaitupuans was controversial.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tighar.org/wiki/Foua_Tofiga |title=Foua Tofiga |publisher=tighar.org |date= |accessdate=26 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202034200/http://tighar.org/wiki/Foua_Tofiga |archive-date=2 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Niulakita is a separate local government district but it is administered as part of Niutao. Niulakita is represented in the Parliament of Tuvalu by the members of the constituency of Niutao.
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==External links==
* {{in lang|en}} [ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2001/2001075.pdf Atoll areas (including lagoons)]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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