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Using measuring tape, scientists found that the coral colony spans about 111 feet wide, 104 feet long and 18 feet high — large enough to fit two full-size basketball courts side by side and ...
At about 111 feet wide and 104 feet long, the team said the "mega coral" was three times bigger than the previous record holder — a coral dubbed "Big Momma" in American Samoa.
The "mega" coral is 112-feet wide, 105-feet long and 18-feet high, making it larger than a blue whale, the world's largest animal.
The atoll is the largest raised coral reef in the world with an elevation of 8 metres (26 ft); and the second-largest atoll in the world after Kiritimati Atoll. [18] It lies at 9°24′S 46°22′E / 9.400°S 46.367°E / -9.400; 46.367 and belongs to the Aldabra Group , one of the island groups of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles ...
With a total area of 747 square miles (1,935 km 2), it is the largest coral reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It contains 37 species of stony coral . Unlike most atolls, the coral extends out from the center like spokes on a wheel.
Lophelia reef (also known by its Wakashan name q̓áuc̓íwísuxv [1] [2]) is a coral reef that lies some 200 m underwater in Finlayson Channel in British Columbia, Canada.It is Canada's only known living coral reef, and the Pacific Ocean's northernmost known coral reef.
The object was not a shipwreck but a massive coral -- soon confirmed as the biggest coral in the world. The gigantic coral, which is visible from space and believed to be about 300 years old ...
[4] [5] The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres (100 mi) wide in places and over 61 metres (200 ft) deep. [6] The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. [7]