CAPTIVATING CORAL REEFS

The coral reefs around Australia are very diverse.

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• There is a heart shaped coral reef located in the Great Barrier Reef, Airlie Beach, Australia

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• The Great Barrier Reef, located in Queensland, Australia, includes one of the largest coral reef ecosystems.

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• The Great Barrier Reef consists of over 2,900 individual coral reefs.

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• There is Snake Pit coral reef so named because of the large number of highly venomous olive sea snakes that are located there.

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• Holmes Reef, located right outside the Great Barrier Reef, reaches depths of about 3,300 feet towards the ocean floor.

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• The Ningaloo Reef, considered a "well-kept secret," is off the coast of the city of Perth and is one of Australia's best diving locations.

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• The inland reefs in the Great Barrier Reef reaches an average depth of around 35 meters, while the outer parts of the reef reach around 2,000 meters deep.

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• Over 1,500 species of fish circulate and live in the Great Barrier Reef.

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• The green sea turtle, the leatherback sea turtle, the hawksbill turtle, the loggerhead sea turtle, the flatback turtle, and the olive ridley turtle are the six turtle species to inhabit the Great Barrier Reef.

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• There is about 30 species of both whales and dolphins that live in the Great Barrier Reef.

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Austrailia's coral reefs are so unique that they have a underwater art gallery located in the Great Barrier Reef.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2013/dec/11/art-under-sea-aus...