Every place you look, from corals in great barrier reef, to polar bear tracks.
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Rounding a sandy curve it quickly became obvious: the staggering beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef coast.
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Heron Island, for example, is a speck of land on the Barrier Reef inhabited mostly by birds.
When it does rain in Queensland, soil washes into the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest barrier reef.
Considering both the complexity and fragility that is the Great Barrier Reef, these marine pilots face a difficult task.
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The fantastic diversity of Queensland's Great Barrier Reef is legendary, and a diving or snorkelling trip out to the reef is unforgettable.
Diving on the Great Barrier Reef for several days, I saw a bewildering variety of corals in every shape and size.
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It is also protected by a huge barrier reef which protects the coast from storms (it is in a hurricane zone).
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral cover in the past 27 years, a new study shows.
Although it is a natural inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef, the crown-of-thorns has, in recent years, undergone several population explosions.
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Veron has published several books since then, most recently, A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End.
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The 44-year-old naturalist died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while filming a documentary on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
The world's second-largest barrier reef provides a stunning backdrop to the Black Pearl Course, with the 120-room resort scheduled to open January 2012.
Barrier reef: a coral reef separated from the land by a large lagoon or, in some cases, by several kilometres of open sea.
The Great Barrier Reef, 1, 400 miles of coral off the coast of Queensland, is far better known, but the Ningaloo in many ways trumps it.
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Divers and adventurers will salivate at the sight of the translucent waters and massive coral arrays of the Mesoamerican Reef - the second-largest barrier reef in the world.
Offshore, you can snorkel and dive the vibrant barrier reef.
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She began her trip in Hawaii and island-hopped her way to Fiji then Australia, taking surf lessons, diving the Great Barrier Reef and visiting eucalyptus rainforests along the way.
Then you'll find yourself in an oasis of beauty and solitude, in a hotel located in the Daintree Rainforest and right by the Great Barrier Reef.
Aside from being the place to hop on the boat to Magnetic Island, it is also a popular departure point for diving courses on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Studies of Australia's Great Barrier Reef show that levels of calcification are down, though it is not yet possible to say changes in chemistry are a reason for this.
The job description requires Mr Southall "to explore the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, swim, snorkel, make friends with the locals and generally enjoy the tropical Queensland climate and lifestyle".
One such marine pilotage company, Australian Reef Pilots, has been helping ships safely navigate the declared mandatory pilotage areas of the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait for more than a century.
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And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
It would have seemed preposterous that, for example, the Great Barrier Reef the biggest structure ever made by life on Earth could be mortally threatened by any present or foreseeable environmental change.
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And by using the global positioning satellite network, vessels' positions can be monitored automatically, as is already the case around the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Georges Bank off the coast of Maine.
If you are collecting capitals stop off at Brisbane, but most continue to tropical Cairns, a jumping-off point for cruising the Great Barrier Reef, the coral-jewelled necklace that makes the most stunning adornment to this coast.
They include attractions as diverse as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (which includes Ayers Rock) in the arid red heart of Australia, and the temperate Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area.
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