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Between 1801 and 1803, Matthew Flinders undertook the monumental task of surveying the entire Australian coastline and at one point actually walked on what he named the ‘Extensive Barrier Reefs’. It was Flinders who charted a safe passage through by sending small boats ahead to sound the depths.
- Great Barrier Reef Facts
Great Barrier Reef Facts Fun facts and interesting...
- Central Great Barrier Reef
Townsville (pictured below) is the largest tropical city in...
- Southern Great Barrier Reef
Bundaberg is located on the Burnett River about 20kms inland...
- Northern Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef itself spans most of the east coast...
- Destinations
While Airlie Beach is one of the most popular entrances to...
- Great Barrier Reef Facts
The great barrier reef as we know it developed during the last period of sea level rise which began around 9,500 years ago. It is estimated that the primary reef growth began around 9,000 years ago and continued until approximately 4,000 – 5,000 years ago.
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).
The following is the story of its development to date – one of three major reef systems to have existed in the region since the Miocene, and the Great Barrier Reef owes its existence to both its predecessors. The architecture of offshore northeast Australia.
This book unfolds the fascinating story behind its mystique, providing for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to the most recent developments in Reef science and management.
30 lis 2017 · Mesopotamia was a region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from which human civilization and world‑changing inventions emerged.
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, Kuwait, and Turkey and known as the Fertile Crescent and the cradle of ...
