No: the Great Barrier Reef is made up of more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.
A fringing reef forms a continuous underwater "wall" for some distance, where as a "barrier Reef" are shorter in distances, and have large gaps in them....and will be between shore and the Barrier Reef..............Sea Rambo
One cannot identify any particular person as discovering that the Great Barrier Reef is dying, because the Reef undergoes a continuous cycle of death and regeneration.
The Great Barrier Reef is a coral reef.
The proper name for the Great Barrier Reef is simply "Great Barrier Reef".
No. The Great Barrier Reef is not a single atoll, but atolls do form part of it. The Great Barrier Reef is a series of atolls, islands and reefs extending for a length of approximately 2300km.
No. Although Osprey Reef is in the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef is located, it is actually separate from the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is a coral reef ecosystem.
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef system in the world.
The great barrier reef is awesome
The Great Barrier Reef has not been destroyed
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef.
The Great Barrier Reef was named by Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate the Australian continent.The Great Barrier Reef is a coral reef placed into the category of 'barrier reef'. This means that the reef is separated from the coastline due to the water's depth being too deep. The reef was given its name because of the following.Great: The Great Barrier Reef is a large and vast coral reef: at 2000km long, it is the largest coral reef in the world.Barrier: The Great Barrier Reef is a barrier reef. A barrier reef is one which runs parallel to the shore, separated by a channel of water.Reef: The Great Barrier Reef is a coral reef.