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| x Aliwal Shoal |
The Aliwal Shoal is a rocky reef which is the remains of an ancient sand dune approximately 5km off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The reef plays host to many kinds of hard and soft corals and a variety of tropical and subtropical fish...
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| x Angria Bank |
Angria Bank is a bank, a shallow sunken atoll on the continental shelf off the west coast of India. It is located 105 km west of Vijaydurg, Maharashtra.
The bank is at a depth of 20.1 metres and its dimensions are 40 km from north to south and 15 km...
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| x Apo Reef | Philippines |
Apo Reef is a series of coral reefs encompassing 34 square kilometers within the waters of Occidental Mindoro in the Philippines. It is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the country. The reef and its...
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| x Belize Barrier Reef |
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Belize |
The Belize Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs straddling the coast of Belize, roughly 300 meters (1,000 ft) offshore in the north and 40 kilometers (25 mi) in the south within the country limits. The Belize Barrier Reef is a 300 kilometers (186...
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| x Benares Shoals |
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Benares Shoals (or Benares Shoal) is a submerged coral reef, an isolated patch located at 5°15′S 071°40′E / 5.25°S 71.667°E / -5.25; 71.667, just 6 km WNW of Île Pierre, the closest island of Peros Banhos atoll in the northern Chagos Archipelago....
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| x Bonaire |
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Netherlands Antilles |
The Island Territory of Bonaire (pronounced /bɒˈnɛər/; Dutch: Eilandgebied Bonaire, Papiamento: Teritorio Insular di Boneiru) is one of five island areas (Eilandgebieden) of the Netherlands Antilles, consisting of the main island of Bonaire and,...
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Corals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals. The group includes the important reef builders that are found in tropical oceans, which secrete...
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| x Coral Triangle |
The Coral Triangle is a geographical term referring to the tropical marinewaters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste with an abundance of coral reef. It is the most diverse marine environment in the...
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| x Coral bleaching |
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Coral bleaching is the whitening of corals, due to stress-induced expulsion or death of symbiotic unicellular algae or due to the loss of pigmentation within the algae. The corals that form the structure of the great reef ecosystems of tropical seas...
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| x Coral rag |
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Coral rag is a rubbly limestone composed of ancient coral reef material. The term also refers to the building blocks quarried from these strata which are an important local building material in areas such as the east African, Bermuda, Florida, and...
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| x Daintree Reef | Queensland |
Daintree Reef is a reef system in the Coral Sea, Queensland. Named after Richard Daintree, it is located adjacent to the Daintree Rainforest, just off the coast of Cape Tribulation, 110km north of Cairns. The system is composed of three reefs:...
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| x Filippo Reef |
Filippo Reef is a reef located in the Pacific Ocean at 05°30′S 151°50′W / 5.5°S 151.833°W / -5.5; -151.833, 450 km east of Starbuck Island in the Line Islands, which was reported by the master of the Italian barque Filippo as having been seen on...
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| x French Frigate Shoals |
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Hawaiian Islands |
The French Frigate Shoals (Hawaiian: Kānemilohaʻi) is the largest atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Its name commemorates French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse, who nearly lost two frigates when attempting to navigate the shoals. It...
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| x Fringing reef |
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A Fringing reef is a kind of coral reef, that is located in the tropics generally directly off the shoreline. This type of coral reef is the most common type of reef that is found. This type of reef grows the best on some kind of hard surface, so it...
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| x Fungiidae |
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Fungiidae (pronounced /fəŋˈɡiː.ɨdiː/) is a family of Cnidaria.
Species are generally solitary marine animals that are capable of benthic locomotion. These corals often appear to be bleached or dead. In most genera, a single polyp emerges from the...
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| x Lansdowne Bank |
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Lansdowne Bank, sometimes called Landsdowne Bank, is an extensive submerged bank located between the main island of New Caledonia and the Chesterfield Islands, in the easternmost part of the Coral Sea. It covers an area of 21,000 km², making it one...
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| x Las Aves Archipelago |
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The Las Aves Archipelago is a pristine archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, and is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is located north of the Venezuelan states of Aragua and Carabobo, between the Dutch island Bonaire in the west, and the...
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| x Los Roques Archipelago |
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The Los Roques islands are a federal dependency of Venezuela, consisting of about 350 islands, cays or islets. The archipelago is an atoll located 80 miles (128 km) directly north of the port of La Guaira, and is a 40-minute flight. Being almost an...
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| x Lyra Reef |
Lyra Reef is a remote submerged coral atoll, about 40 km in diameter, extending over an area of 1300 km², located approximately 200 kilometers northeast of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, and 150 km northeast of Simberi...
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| x Madrepore |
Madrepore ("mother of pores") is a coral of the genus Madrepora, found often forming reefs or islands in tropical locations. They reproduce in three separate ways as discovered by the Victorian marine zoologist Anna Thynne (1806-1866).
The name was...
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| x Maro Reef |
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Maro Reef (Hawaiian: Nalukākala) is a largely submerged coral atoll located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It was discovered in 1820 by Captain Joseph Allen of the ship Maro, after whose ship the reef was named. With a total area of 747...
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| x Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System |
The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS, also simply known as the Mesoamerican reef and often abbreviated MAR) stretches from the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula down to the Bay Islands of Honduras. It includes the Belize Barrier Reef. This reef...
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| x Miami Terrace Reef |
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Florida |
The Miami Terrace Reef (25°45′N 79°55′W / 25.75°N 79.917°W / 25.75; -79.917) is a coral reef off the coast of Florida stretching from South Miami to Boca Raton, in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies in depths of 650 to 2,000 feet (200 to 600 meters) on...
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| x Minerva Reefs |
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Pacific Ocean |
The Minerva Reefs are a group of reefs located in the Pacific Ocean south of Fiji and Tonga. The reefs were named after the whaleship Minerva, was wrecked on what became known as South Minerva after setting out from Sydney in 1829. Many other ships...
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| x Lisianski Island |
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Lisianski Island (Hawaiian: Papa‘āpoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a land area of 384.425 acres (155.571 ha) and a maximum elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. Honolulu is 905 nautical miles (1,676 km; 1,041 mi) away,...
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| x New Caledonia Barrier Reef |
The New Caledonia Barrier Reef is located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, and is the second-longest coral reef in the world, after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The New Caledonia Barrier reef surrounds Grand Terre, New Caledonia's largest...
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| x Ningaloo Reef |
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Ningaloo Reef is a fringing coral reef located off the west coast of Australia, approximately 1200 km north of Perth. The reef is 260 km long and is Australia's largest fringing coral reef and the only large reef positioned very close to a landmass....
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| x Okinotorishima |
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Okinotorishima (沖ノ鳥島) is an atoll, which in English has multiple designations (Okinotori coral reefs, Okinotori Islands). Its original name was Parece Vela Spanish for "looks like a sail" (alluding to the original appearance of the reef). This name...
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| x Palmyra Atoll |
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United States of America |
Palmyra Atoll (pronounced /pælˈmaɪrə/) is an incorporated atoll administered by the United States federal government. The atoll is 4.6 sq mi (12 km), and it is located in the Northern Pacific Ocean. Geographically, Palmyra is one of the Northern...
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| x Pearl and Hermes Atoll |
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The Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Hawaiian: Holoikauaua), is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Named after two English whaleships, the Pearl and the Hermes, that wrecked there in 1822, a few, small, sandy islands exist, contained within a lagoon...
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| x John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park |
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Florida |
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is a Florida State Park located on Key Largo in Florida, and includes approximately 70 nautical square miles (240 km²) of adjacent Atlantic Ocean waters. It was the first underwater park in the United States. The...
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| x Raja Ampat Islands |
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West Irian Jaya |
Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays and shoals surrounding the four main...
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| x Tubbataha Reef |
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Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef located in the Sulu Sea of the Philippines. It is a marine sanctuary protected as Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park. It is nominated at the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
The word tubbataha is a combination of two...
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