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Charge to land on a tropical paradise (5)

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I believe the answer is:

atoll

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'a tropical paradise' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'charge to land on' is the wordplay.
'charge' becomes 'toll' (toll is a kind of charge).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'land on' becomes 'a' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'toll' put after 'a' is 'ATOLL'.

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(Other definitions for atoll that I've seen before include "Coral island with central lagoon" , "Bikini for one" , "Land around a lagoon, such as Bikini" , "Coral circle" , "Key" .)

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