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The Coral Sea (French: Mer de Corail) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) down the Australian northeast coast.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia.
Covering a vast area of 4,791,000 sq. km, the Coral Sea is a tropical marginal sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean that is located off the northeastern coast of Australia. The sea contains many islands and reefs including the Great Barrier Reef which is considered the world’s largest coral reef system.
Coral Sea, sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, extending east of Australia and New Guinea, west of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, and south of the Solomon Islands. It is about 1,400 miles (2,250 km) north-south and 1,500 miles east-west and covers an area of 1,849,800 square miles
What lies off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, in the Coral Sea? The region was mostly unexplored and uncharted until a recent expedition searched its dark waters, uncovering an abundance of...
The Coral Sea Marine Park is a vast blue wilderness of dramatic underwater seascapes, extraordinary creatures and complex ecosystems. At just under a million square kilometres it’s one of the world’s biggest marine protected areas — three times larger than the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
The Coral Sea is the body of water east of the Great Barrier Reef, bounded by Papua New Guinea to the north, the Tasman Front to the south, and the west Pacific island chains of the Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the east.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, [1][2] composed of over 2,900 individual reefs [3] and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). [4][5] The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated...
The Coral Sea borders the Great Barrier Reef and the island archipelagos of Melanesia. Collectively, this region contains marine ecosystems of exceptionally high quality, and it remains the last great reservoir of high-biodiversity coral reefs in the world.
Australia's Coral Sea is one of the last places on Earth where ocean giants — sharks, tunas, marlin — still abound. Yet less than 1 percent of the Coral Sea is permanently protected from fishing, oil and gas exploration and seabed mining.