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15 unusual facts about Great Barrier Reef


Coral Reef Adventure

From Australia's Great Barrier Reef, to a friend's coral reef-sustained village in Fiji, the diving expeditions show a range of coral reefs, from flourishing ones filled with unusual and exotic inhabitants, to vast stretches of bleached coral decline which prompted the Hall's activism.

Ecology of sponges

Such contributions to their habits' resources are significant along Australia 's Great Barrier Reef but relatively minor in the Caribbean.

Ernest Mustard

Mustard was also responsible for the first aerial survey of Australia's Barrier Reef.

Gobiodon citrinus

Gobiodon citrinus, the Poison Goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean from the Red Sea and the coast of Africa to the western Pacific Ocean to Japan, Samoa and the Great Barrier Reef.

Gobiodon histrio

Gobiodon histrio, the Broad-barred goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean from the Red sea to the western Pacific Ocean to southern Japan, Samoa and the Great Barrier Reef.

Guanaja

The island's warm, clear waters support an extensive coral reef that is part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef and second only to the Great Barrier Reef off the coasts of Australia.

HMAS Echuca

Echuca was paid off into Reserve in August 1946, but recommissioned in January 1947 for mine clearance work in the Great Barrier Reef.

HMQS Paluma

Over the next eight years, Paluma conducted survey work on the Great Barrier Reef for the Admiralty.

Lady Brisbane

Originally built to operate out to the Great Barrier Reef, the Lady Brisbane was built in 1972 by Milkraft in Brisbane, and has been renovated.

MV Reef Endeavour

MV Reef Endeavour built in Suva Fiji and was the first ship to contact the Great Barrier Reef as an attraction, in 1996, an important milestone for tourism in Australia.

Oil Pollution Act of 1973

The 1971 OILPOL amendments imposed irrevocable oceanic jurisdictions for the Great Barrier Reef located in the Coral Sea.

Queen of the Isles

She was renamed Queen of the Isles II in 1987 when cruising off the Great Barrier Reef.

Sandy Island, New Caledonia

A study of coral migration from Tonga to the Great Barrier Reef found pumice rafts to be the mode of transportation, with a predicted path consistent with the 2004 study.

Synanceia verrucosa

It is the most widespread species in the stonefish family, and is known from shallow tropical marine waters in the Pacific and Indian Oceans from the Red Sea to the Great Barrier Reef.

Tasneem Roc

The show stars Lisa McCune as Sam Stewart the leader of a team of doctors serving the remote Hope Island Clinic on the Great Barrier Reef.


Allan Riverstone McCulloch

McCulloch travelled widely for his collections, including trips to Queensland, Lord Howe Island, New Guinea, the Great Barrier Reef and various Pacific islands.

Alpha Coal Project

The Minister for Environment Tony Burke has stipulated the project must adhere to 19 conditions aimed at protecting the Great Barrier Reef.

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata is a species of goby found on reefs or in sea grass beds in the western Pacific from New Caledonia to the Great Barrier Reef and around New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Coral Sea

It is bounded in the west by the east coast of Queensland, thereby including the Great Barrier Reef, in the east by Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides) and by New Caledonia, and in the northeast approximately by the southern extremity of the Solomon Islands.

Cruise Whitsundays

Cruise Whitsundays provides day cruises to Hamilton Island Daydream Island, Long Island (Whitsunday Islands), Great Barrier Reef, sailing adventures to Whitehaven Beach, and an island resort connections service.

Cymbiolacca pulchra wisemani

This species occurs in shallow water on top of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia from at least as far north as Saint Crispins Reef Reef east of Cape Tribulation to at least as far south as Stanley Reef north east of Bowen.

Exyrias akihito

Since the recent description of this species it has been found to have a wide distribution in the western Pacific including the Great Barrier Reef, New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Yaeyama Islands, Japan.

Kathleen McArthur

She was involved in several campaigns during the 1960s and 1970s to preserve landscapes threatened by economic development, including the Pumicestone Passage, the Great Barrier Reef and Cooloola.

MV True North

Each year, she does one circumnavigation of Australia offering exclusive, luxury expeditions in Papua New Guinea, Cape York, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, South Australia and, from 2010, Solomon Islands.

Pink whipray

Small to large gatherings of pink whiprays have been observed over sandy flats and coral reefs in Shark Bay, on the Great Barrier Reef, and in the Caroline Islands.

Port Douglas AFC

Port Douglas is a popular tourist destination and is close to both the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree National Park rainforest.

Sabrina, Down Under

Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman, a teenage witch, visiting Australia to discover the Great Barrier Reef, and meet marine biologist Dr. Julian Martin.

Spotband butterflyfish

It is found in the Indo- West Pacific region from Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Line Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Rowley Shoals and the northern Great Barrier Reef, and throughout Micronesia.

Sunferries

It operates both ferry services to Magnetic Island and Palm Island, as well as charter and tour vessel services to the Great Barrier Reef.