Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef

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Facts:

- The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world. It's also bigger thank a size of 2600km!
- It is also known to be the largest coral reef system in the world.

- There are more than 2,900 single reefs in the Great Barrier Reef.

- A large part of the Great Barrier Reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

- The Great Barrier Reef goes from the Torres Strait Island to Bramble Cay.

-There are exactly1,500 species of fish, 360 species of coral, up to 8,000 species of molluscs, between 400-500 species of plants and coral, 600 species of echinoderm, 17 types of sea snakes, 22 types of seabirds, 32 types of shorebirds, 6 types of marine turtles, and 30 types of cetaceans .

Here are 5 marine animals from the Great Barrier Reef. There are also pictures.


1. The Hammer Head Shark!

2. The Manta Ray!

3.The Whale!

4. The Grouper!

5. And Last Of All... The Dugong!

Here is a picture I made of the Great Barrier Reef. I used the program Paint and Adobe Photoshop.

Here is a picture similar to mine.