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Great Barrier Reef

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Great Barrier Reef
The largest coral reef in the world, about 2,011 km (1,250 mi) long, off the northeast coast of Australia. Its vividly colored banks are known for their exotic fish and crustaceans.

Great Barrier Reef
n
(Placename) a coral reef in the Coral Sea, off the NE coast of Australia, extending for about 2000 km (1250 miles) from the Torres Strait along the coast of Queensland; the largest coral reef in the world
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Noun1.Great Barrier ReefGreat Barrier Reef - the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia
Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
Australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
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Great Barrier Reef n
the Great Barrier Reef → la Grande Barrière
Great Barrier Reef n the Great Barrier Reefla grande barriera corallina
Great Barrier Reef n the Great Barrier Reefla grande barriera corallina


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Discovery Educator Network provided support to participating K-12 classrooms with standards-based lesson plans on related subjects like marsupials and the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef.
LEO SMITH, an expert on venomous fish, on the death of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, who was killed last month by a stingray white filming at the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's northeast coast.
It was thus fitting, in a ghoulish sort of way, perhaps, that his death was to come from the poisonous lash of a stingray lurking in waters off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
 
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