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N OLIVE SHELL, GREAT BARRIER REEF
This Oliva bulbosa is more inflated or bulbous than most olives. With a
glossy sheen and a great variety of abstract patterns, ribbons, curves and
tent shapes, olives are especially attractive.
We are not the first to see a letter in an olive. In the
mid-1700s conchologist Dezallier d’Argenville claimed that he could make out
three Roman letters on a Pacific specimen of Oliva sayana, shell, called “the
Lettered Olive” for its varied design.
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| Coral reef island in calm sea |
Coral reef island before the storm |
| Belize |
Belize |
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