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The Amazon Reef (also referred to as the Amazonian Reef) is an extensive coral and sponge reef system, located off the coast of French Guiana and northern Brazil. It is one of the largest reef systems in the world known to exist, with scientists estimating its length to be over 600 miles (970 km) long, and covering over 3,600 square miles ...
The reef has a number of colonies [citation needed] of hard coral atop rock outcroppings that run parallel to the coast, [5] occurring in progressively deeper water offshore. After organizing by local community groups, [ 6 ] the area was designated a national park in 1995, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, and a Ramsar Wetland of ...
About 25% of the ocean's fish depend on healthy coral reefs. Coral reefs cover only a tiny area of the ocean floor — about 1% of the total marine habitat — but, like bustling cities, they ...
Humans don't know what they're missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.”
The park was established in 1979 and covers 2700 hectares (6700 acres) and includes a coral reef, seagrass, and mangrove vegetation. [2] [3] The Lac Bay lagoon is also part of the underwater park. In 1999, the underwater park received the status of national park from the Netherlands Antilles.
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.
It was discovered in 1820 by Captain Joseph Allen of the ship Maro, after whose ship the reef was named. 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.