Great Barrier Reef
Great Barrier Reef is one of the most phenomenal places on our planet. In practice, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world with over 350 000kv.km. area within the Coral Sea south-east coast of Australia. Extends to Papua New Guinea to the north, the most southern point of the Great Barrier Reef is located on Lady Elliot Island off of 2300 km. Great Barrier Reef is not just an endless reef and a vast conglomerate of reefs, shoals and islands. The outer barrier reef approximately follows the line of the continental reef, and deviates from 32 to 260 km. along the coast of Queensland. Big Lagoon, which surrounds it and which has a depth less than 60 meters, includes many inner reefs and islands, some of which are high islands of continental origin.
East of the Great Barrier Reef lies the Coral Sea, north e surrounded by Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands east of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. The largest reef system on the planet is composed of many small coral polyps whose skeletons bone sandwiched together form a fantastic multicolored formations that resemble the rocks outside, but also as we are living organisms.
The area of the Great Barrier Reef is home to some of the most colorful tropical fish and ocean bizarre children as the sea cow. Great Barrier Reef includes several scattered reef that emerge from the sea depths from 700 to 1800 meters and is the only living organism on Earth that can be seen from outer space. The purity of the marine waters of this level is extremely high, making the Great Barrier Reef one of the best places for diving in water.
Part of a World Heritage of Unesco from 1981 and was named one of the seven natural wonders of the planet.Diving water for centuries been an important way for people living on the shores of the Coral Sea to acquire fish, shellfish and crustaceans. In some communities shells were used as currency exchange, and places where there are no shells and coral stones were used as building materials. Today the Great Barrier Reef, which is aged more than 18 million years, is a popular tourist especially among scuba divers. Here around the Great Barrier Reef can be seen a huge number of different species of fish and corals, some of which are endemic.
