Great Barrier Reef
The largest coral reef in the world, about 2,010 km (1,250 mi) long, off the northeast coast of Australia. The reef provides habitat for a wide range of marine life.
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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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Great′ Bar′rier Reef`
n.
a coral reef parallel to the coast of Queensland, in NE Australia. 1250 mi. (2010 km) long.
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| Noun | 1. |  Great Barrier Reef - the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of AustraliaAustralia, 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 barriera corallinaCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995