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  2. Coral Sea Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Coral Sea Islands became an Australian external territory in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth Reef and Middleton Reef nearly 800 km further south. The two latter reefs are much closer to Lord Howe Island , New South Wales , (about 150 km (93 mi)) than to the southernmost island of the rest of the ...

  3. Wreck Reefs - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Coral Sea Islands The Wreck Reefs are located in the southern part of the Coral Sea Islands approximately 450 kilometres (280 mi) east-north-east of Gladstone, Queensland , Australia. Approximately 250 kilometres (130 nmi; 160 mi) east of the Swain Reefs complex they form a narrow chain of reefs with small cays that extends for ...

  4. Coral Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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    Coral Bay is a town and a sub-district on the island of St. John in the United States Virgin Islands.It is located on the southeastern side of the island. It was the commercial center of the island in the 19th century as the site of the largest plantation, but from the 1950s onward the population dwindled as the Cruz Bay side of the island with its airport and ferry service to St. Thomas ...

  5. Coral reefs of the Virgin Islands - Wikipedia

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    As stated, the coral reefs such as fringing reefs, deep reefs, patch reefs and spur and groove formation are distributed over three islands in the Virgin Islands which are St. Croix (Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, Buck Island Reef National Monument), St. Thomas, and St. John (Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument).

  6. Flinders Reef - Wikipedia

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    Coral in the reef. Flinders Reef is a small isolated reef near Moreton Island, 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Cape Moreton in South East Queensland, Australia. [1] It has the highest number of coral species of any subtropical reef system along Australia's east coast and is the nearest true coral reef to Brisbane.

  7. Moreton Island - Wikipedia

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    Moreton Island experiences a marine-moderated humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa with very warm, muggy summers and mild, pleasant winters. Precipitation is abundant year-round, averaging 1,467.3 millimetres (57.77 in) annually, and wind speeds are high, averaging 26.8 kilometres per hour (16.7 mph) at 3 pm, in part due to its exposed location.

  8. Atoll - Wikipedia

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    ɒ l,-ɔː l,-oʊ l, ə ˈ t ɒ l,-ˈ t ɔː l,-ˈ t oʊ l /) [1] is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim. [2] [3] Atolls are located in warm tropical or subtropical parts of the oceans and seas where corals can develop. Most of the approximately 440 atolls in the ...

  9. Coral Island - Wikipedia

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    A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus. Coral Island may also refer to: The Coral Island, an 1858 novel by R. M. Ballantyne; Coral Island, a 2021 album by British rock band The Coral; The Coral Island, a children's television show adaptation of the Ballntyne novel; Coral Island, a 2023 farming sim game; Ko Hae, a southern ...