NOUN
- the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia
How To Use Great Barrier Reef In A Sentence
- At the moment less than 5% of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is actually protected as no-take areas and that clearly has to change.
- There is strong evidence to suggest that the Great Barrier Reef will have disappeared in 20 years time.
- Earlier in the day, a 31-year-old man was attacked by a bronze whaler shark while spearfishing near Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
- As long as Aboriginal people have been living near the Great Barrier Reef, they have traveled to offshore islands and reefs.
- Without a thorough understanding of the biological diversity and ecological processes of the Great Barrier Reef, it would have been impossible to define bioregions in the marine park.
- Soon they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef.
- lots of individual reefs, around about 2,900 separate reef systems which make up the Great Barrier Reef.
- Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef provides a home for 5,000 to 8,000 species of mollusk and 800 species of echinoderm a phylum that includes starfish and sea urchins. Australia's Great Barrier Reef
- In 1998 and again this year mass coral bleaching affected more than 50% of the Great Barrier Reef.
- Species associated with the Great Barrier Reef, such as Moorish idols, trumpetfish, butterfly, angelfish and fairy basslets co-exist with temperate seaweeds and fish that like colder climates.
