Great Barrier Reef

Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system consists of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for more than 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) above the surrounding area of 344,400 square kilometers (133,000 sq mi). Coral is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia.

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Belize Barrier Reef

This is the peak tourist Belize popular destination for scuba diving and snorkeling and pulled her nearly half from 260,000 visitors, and vital to the fishing industry.

Charles Darwin described it as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies" in 1842.


Belize Barrier Reef is home to a large diversity of plants and animals, one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world:

      * 70 types of hard coral
      * 36 species of soft corals
      * 500 species of fish
      * hundreds of species of invertebrates

With 90% of coral still need to be investigated, it is estimated that only 10% of all species have been found.

Belize Barrier Reef is a series of Belize reefs straddling the coast, about 300 meters (1,000 feet) off the coast in the north and 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the country's boundaries. Belize Barrier Reef is 300 kilometers (186 miles) long section of 900 kilometers (560 miles) long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, which continuously from Cancún on the northeastern tip of the Riviera Maya Yucatán Peninsula to Honduras to make the second largest coral reef system in the world after Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

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Raja Ampat

Located at the northwestern tip of the Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia, West Papua, Raja Ampat, or King Four, an archipelago of more than 1,500 small islands, cays and shelves around the four main islands Misool, Salawati , Batanta and Waigeo, and small island Kofiau. It covers more than 40,000 km ² of land and sea, which also contains Cendrawasih, the largest marine national park in Indonesia. This is part of the newly named West Papua (province) of Indonesia formerly Irian Jaya. The islands are the northernmost piece of land on the continent of Australia.

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Andaman Sea Reefs, India

Andaman Sea is located on the east bank of the Indian Ocean, the west is bordered by the arc of islands stretching from North Sumatra to the Irrawaddy delta. Coral reefs are abundant in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Mergui Archipelago (Myanmar), Thailand and Malaysia's west coast and northwestern Sumatra (Indonesia).

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Andros, Bahamas Barrier Reef

Coral barrier reef is the third largest in the world. These extend the distance of 142 miles along the east coast of Andros Island. It separates Andros from the tongue of the sea two thousand-foot drop-off point in the sea. Barrier reef is about one half mile from the beach.

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Red Sea Coral Reef

Red Sea coral reefs are found throughout the northern Indian Ocean basin. Most of the Red Sea coast is surrounded by shelves of large shallow sea that supports a wide edge of the reef system, which is by far the main dominant species of coral reefs found here.

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Bunaken , Indonesia

In 1996 28% of people who lived in the park full-time fishermen. There are also thousands more who fish part-time and among them is estimated that they catch 5616 tonnes of reef and pelagic fish in that year. Reef fish such as grouper, snapper, and thick lips baronang comprised 57% of the total weight of this catch. Activities that put pressure on the reef's most traditional fishermen in addition to gleaning (collecting animals reef-flat by prying and overturning coral on the reef flat at low tide), coral mining, and occasionally illegal bomb and cyanide fishing.

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New Caledonia Barrier Reef

The New Caledonia Barrier Reef is located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, and is the second-longest double-barrier coral reef in the world, after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles

Aldabra, the second largest coral atoll in the world, located in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the Seychelles. Uninhabited and very isolated, Aldabra almost untouched by humans, have a distinctive fauna of the island including the Aldabra Giant Tortoise, and designated a World Heritage Site.

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Tubbataha Reef

Tubbataha Reef is a coral atoll located in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines. This is a marine sanctuary protected as Tubbataha Reef Marine National Park. This is a nomination in the New 7 Wonders of Nature.

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