BARRIER REEF, THE GREAT

BARRIER REEF, THE GREAT
   a slightly interrupted succession of coral reefs off the coast of Queensland, of 1200 m. extent, and 100 m. wide at the S., and growing narrower as they go N.; are from 70 to 20 m. off the coast, and protect the intermediate channel from the storms of the Pacific.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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