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Answer» Answer: - covers 344,400 km2 in area.
- includes the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.
- includes some 3000 coral reefs, 600 CONTINENTAL islands, 300 coral CAYS and about 150 inshore mangrove islands.
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- Great Barrier Reef, complex of coral reefs, shoals, and islets in the Pacific Ocean off the northeastern coast of Australia that is the LONGEST and largest reef complex in the world.
- The reef actually consists of some 2,100 individual reefs and some 800 fringing reefs (formed around islands or bordering coastlines). Many are dry or barely awash at low tide; some have islands of coral sand, or cays; others fringe HIGH islands or the mainland coast.
- The reef actually consists of some 2,100 individual reefs and some 800 fringing reefs (formed around islands or bordering coastlines). Many are dry or barely awash at low tide; some have islands of coral sand, or cays; others fringe high islands or the mainland coast.
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