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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. The reef is located off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. It stretches 1260 miles in length and can be seen from space.

The First European Explorer to Discover the Great Barrier Reef was Captain James Cook in 1768.

Due to its vast biodiversity, warm clear waters and its accessibilty from the floating guest facilities called 'live aboards', the GBR is a very popular destination for scuba divers. Many cities along the Queensland coast offer boat trips to the reef on a daily basis. Several continental islands have been turned into resorts.

The GBR is sometimes referred to as the single largest living animal being in the world. In reality it is many colonies of corals.

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef

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They range in character from architectual monuments, like the pyramids of Egypt, to natural wonders, like the Great Barrier Reef. ...
"He had a beautiful wife and a son that he simply adored and he was able to dive regularly on the Great Barrier Reef along with his best mates. ...
Positioned in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia's most popular cruising location, magnetic Island is an ideal base for exploring the waters of ...
"The odds are not great for the Great Barrier Reef or for the economies based on the Murray-Darling ... There's a chance of saving parts of the reef [but] to ...

Work has been suspended on a resort development near Australia's Great Barrier Reef because of environmental concerns. [Reuters] Australia's environment ...
I just came from Townsville in North Queensland, quite close to the Great Barrier Reef. While setting the tarp background, it just occurred to me to ...
Eleven helicopters will take in the sights of the outback, Gulf country and Great Barrier Reef in the six-day 2008 Cape York Adventure safari to raise money ...
... DEVELOPERS are bracing for a backlash after Environment Minister Peter Garrett suspended a multimillion-dollar development on the Great Barrier Reef. ...
It ranks with Uluru, Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef as a wonder of nature. The island is a place of exceptional beauty, a miracle of nature. ...
Situated on the southern Great Barrier Reef, 80km offshore from the city of Gladstone, the crystal clear water and near pristine conditions make it an ideal ...
Given its plethora of locations - the Great Barrier Reef, a dentist's office, the belly of a whale - recreating the film in a rink is no mean feat. ...
He characterised the area as "roughly analogous" to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, though not as large (the total area of Abu Dhabi's marine territorial ...
... untouched tropical islands in the Coral sea between the Queensland coast and the Great Barrier Reef, this is the largest of the inhabited islands. ...
Olson earned his Ph.D. degree at Harvard University in 1984 and he conducted years of field research on coral-reef ecology on the Great Barrier Reef of ...
"On the Great Barrier Reef we have been relatively lucky, but elsewhere we have seen a number of instances where seaweeds simply took over the reef, ...
The sea wasp, known as the box jelly because of its cube-shaped bell, is found in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia and The Philippines. ...
The Reef Fleet Terminal, the jump-off point for trips to the Great Barrier Reef, is just a stroll away from the property. Regency on Spence is the ideal ...
This workshop was initially developed by NOAA and Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and has been customized to address Pacific ...
Down under, the Great Barrier Reef enjoys perfect 80-degree water this time of year. Plus plenty of prime amateur-diving territory in the Pacific and ...
"On the Great Barrier Reef we have been relatively lucky, but elsewhere we have seen a number of instances where seaweeds simply took over the reef, ...
THREE sailors have been plucked from their sinking yacht on the Great Barrier Reef in a dramatic rescue involving authorities from Australia and Germany. ...
The government - which is trying to pass its Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2008, the framework for the management of ...
There are grave doubts that the Great Barrier Reef can continue to attract tourists worth $6 billion-a-year to Queensland, a coral specialist told the ...
... (ACV) StormBay have plucked three German men to safety from their stricken yacht in waters near the Raine Island entrance to the Great Barrier Reef. ...
... a statistic that helps measure reef health, Hanalei's mark of 11004 more than doubled that of its nearest challenger, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, ...
In 1996 she went to Port Douglas, Australia, for a show and stayed 8 months to dive the Great Barrier Reef. In 2000 she moved to Giza, Egypt, ...
It warns that a 2 per cent global temperature increase would kill off coral reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef, and cause the melting of ice sheets in ...
The Whitsunday area is a particularly beautiful and unspoilt part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in the Queensland tropics. ...
In these parts there are enough adventure activities to satisfy an adrenalin junkie: scuba diving and snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef; skydiving on to ...
... of marine protected areas, even vast treasured reefs like the Great Barrier Reef and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands will become wastelands of dead coral. ...
She's back, and all she did, with her free Nikon camera, was swim with the turtles in the Great Barrier Reef, hang with marsupials, and get set up with some ...
The Great Barrier Reef is among the world's greatest reefs, but it is not immune to global warming, and could disappear this century. ...
The Seaspray Collection consists of eight pieces inspired by the Great Barrier Reef with vibrant colors and ocean tones. Barneys, 660 Madison Ave., nr. ...
It's where two World Heritage-listed sites - the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef - exist side by side, earmarking this corner of Queensland ...
Webster tested samples of a common sponge from the Great Barrier Reef, Rhopaloeides odorabile, a brown, velvety sponge that can range from fist-sized to the ...
Wilson added that Australia's approach on the Great Barrier Reef, where a third of the total area is protected by 'green' zones, was a model for how to ...
... been named a finalist in Queensland government's Smart Women Smart State Awards for a project helping protect the Great Barrier Reef from toxic algae. ...
Wilson added that Australia's approach on the Great Barrier Reef, where a third of the total area is protected by 'green' zones, was a model for how to ...
The Australian landscape also influenced the design of the clothes with the Great Barrier Reef cited as inspiration for a geometric patterned sun dress from ...
Australia has outlawed fishing along a third of the Great Barrier Reef to stem the decline of fish stocks there. Palau, a prime scuba-diving destination in ...

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