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  • A coral reef lies across the entrance.
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  • The channel between the reef and the coast is in places 70 m.
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  • - For Physical Geography: Barton, Australian Physiography (Brisbane, 1895); Wall, Physical Geography of Australia (Melbourne, 1883); Taylor, Geography of New South Wales (Sydney, 1898); Saville Kent, The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (London, 1893); A.
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  • deep. There are a few clear openings in the outer rampart which the reef presents to the ocean.
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  • The Great Barrier Reef of Australia can be traced more or less continuously round the Gulf of Papua and along the south-east coast to the extremity of the Louisiades.
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  • Ongtong Java, a coral reef of many islets, lies considerably north of the main group to which, geographically, it can hardly be said to belong.'
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  • The association and distribution of gold may be considered under two different heads, namely, as it occurs in mineral veins - " reef gold," and in alluvial or other superficial deposits which are derived from the waste of the former - " alluvial gold."
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  • - This method is employed to extract gold from both alluvial and reef deposits: in the first case it is combined with " hydraulic mining," i.e.
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  • The " Pandora," under Captain Edwards, was sent out in search of the " Bounty," and discovered the islands of Cherry and Mitre, east of the Santa Cruz group, but she was eventually lost on a reef in Torres Strait.
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  • deep. In the Transvaal gold region (South Africa), a number of shafts have been sunk to strike the reef at about 4000 ft.
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  • The main reef, continuously traced, measures about 62 m.
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  • The port is formed by a stone reef running parallel with and a half-mile from the shore line, within which vessels of light draft find a safe anchorage, except from southerly gales.
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  • An almost unbroken barrier reef skirts the west shore at about 5 m.
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  • The Devonian system is well exposed in the Reef ton mining field.
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  • In many places the main reef lies at a great depth and some bore-holes are over 5500 ft.
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  • The French headquarters are on the islet of Zaudzi, which lies within the reef in 12° 46' S., 45° 20' E.
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  • BELL or INCHCAPE Rock, a sandstone reef in the North Sea, II m.
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  • This was a conservative estimate, and was made before the full extent of the reefs was known; in 1904 Lionel Phillips stated that the main reef series had been proved for 61 m., and he estimated the gold remaining to be mined to be worth £2,500,000,000.
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  • Agassiz, Visit to the Barrier Reef (Cambridge, Mass., 1899); J.
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  • They lie within a coral barrier reef, and in the south the islands are of coral, but in the north of volcanic rocks.
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  • Two other United States warships, "Trenton" and "Vandalia," were beaten to pieces on the coral reef; and the German warships "Olga" and "Eber" were wrecked with great loss of life.
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  • Pelsert struck on a reef called " Houtman's Abrolhos " on the 4th of June 1629.
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  • In 1883 the discovery of Moodie's Reef near the Kaap Valley led to a considerable influx of diggers and prospectors from the colonies and Europe, and by 1884 the Sheba Mine had been opened up, and Barberton, with a population of 5000 inhabitants, sprung into existence.
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  • conglomerate beds occur in belts forming in descending order the Elsburg series, Kimberley series, Bird Reef series, Livingstone Reef series, Main Reef series.
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  • The richest in gold are to be found among the Main Reef series, which yields by far the greater part of the total output of gold from the Transvaal.
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  • Four distinct types of reef gold deposits may be distinguished: (I) Gold may occur disseminated through metalliferous veins, generally with sulphides and more particularly with pyrites.
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  • The surveys and reports of Captain Moresby in 1874 brought home to Queensland (and Australia generally) the dangers possible to her commerce were the coasts opposite to Torres Strait and the entrance to the splendid waterway inside the Barrier Reef to fall into the possession of a foreign power.
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  • According to tradition an abbot of Aberbrothock (Arbroath) had ordered a bell - whence the name of the rock - to be fastened to the reef in such a way that it should respond to the movements of the waves, and thus always ring out a warning to mariners.
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  • In 1886 there was a serious volcanic eruption in the outlying island of Nivafoou, and at the same time Falcon Reef, normally awash at high water, discharged sufficient scoriae and pumice to form a new island 50 ft.
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  • It is not a coral reef, as is sometimes stated, but is a consolidated ancient beach, now as hard and firm as stone.'
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  • The Black Reef Series is composed of quartzites, sandstone, slates and conglomerate.
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  • One is a red granite intruded subsequently to the Waterberg sandstones; another is a grey variety considered to be older than the Black Reef series and possibly older than the Witwatersrand series.
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  • The gold in this conglomerate reef is partly of detrital origin and partly of the genetic character of ordinary vein-gold.
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  • The Black Reef series of quartzites and conglomerates and dolomite form a narrow outcrop resting unconformably upon the last-mentioned system.
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  • The greater part of the coast is surrounded by a coral reef, often half a mile wide; in several localities an old reef upheaved, sometimes 100 ft.
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  • See Geographical Journal, passim; and Atoll of Funafuti: Borings into a Coral Reef (Report of Coral Reef Committee of Royal Society, London, 1904).
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  • In 1770 Captain Cook here beached his ship the "Endeavour," to repair the damage caused by her striking a reef in the neighbourhood of the estuary, which he could only clear by throwing his guns overboard.
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  • The town, named after Johannes Rissik, then surveyor-general of the Transvaal, was founded in September 1886, the first buildings being erected on the part of the reef where are now the Ferreira and Wemmer mines.
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  • (From Photographs by C. Evans.) In a very few years, however, the open pit mining was rendered impossible by the mud rushes, by the falls of the masses of barren rock known as " reef," which were left standing in the mine, and by landslips from the sides, so that in 1883, when the pit had reached a depth of about 400 ft., mining in the Kimberley crater had become almost impossible.
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  • Often, as has been said, the atoll is divided into a number of islets, but in some smaller atolls the ring is complete, and the sea-water gains access beneath the surface of the reef to the lagoon within, where it is sometimes seen to spout up at the rise of the tide.
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  • In some places along the coast there is a narrow strip of decomposed coral limestone; often, too, a coral reef has served to catch the sediment washed down the mountain side until a deep sedimentary soil has been deposited.
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  • Its harbour consists of an outer and inner anchorage, the former an open roadstead, which are separated by a remarkable stone reef running parallel with the shore-line, leaving an inside passage 400 to 500 ft.
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  • Evidence of recent elevation of the island is furnished by masses of coral reef and beach coral rock standing at heights of 40 ft.
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  • KEY WEST (from the Spanish Cayo Hueso, " Bone Reef"), a city, port of entry, and the county-seat of Monroe county, Florida, U.S.A., situated on a small coral island (41m.
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  • The town is the centre of the Ovens goldfields, and the district is mainly devoted to mining with both alluvial and reef working, but much of the land is under cultivation, yielding grain and fruit.
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  • The Great Barrier Reef forms the prominent feature off the north-east coast of Australia; its extent from north to south is 1200 m., and it is therefore the greatest of all coral reefs.
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  • The attacking force was disposed in three groups: (i) the Alexandra, Sultan and Superb, outside the reef, to engage the Ras-el-Tin and the earthworks under weigh; (2) the Monarch, Invincible and Penelope, inside the harbour, to engage the Meks batteries; and (3) the Inflexible and Temeraire, to take up assigned stations outside the reef and to co-operate, with the inshore squadron.
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  • Amongst these are the dome, an isolated elevation rising steeply but not coming within too fathoms of the surface; the bank, an elevation coming nearer the surface than too fathoms, but not so near as 6 fathoms; and finally the shoal or reef, which comes within 6 fathoms of the surface, and so may constitute a danger to shipping.
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  • These islands form a continuation of a dangerous granite reef extending along the south coast of Finland.
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  • The length of the Tetuaroa reef ring is about six miles; it bears twelve palm-covered islets, of which several are inhabited, and has one narrow boat-passage leading into the lagoon.
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  • The island is low and fertile, and extensively planted with coco-nut palms. It is continued southwards by an extensive reef, on which stands the chief village, Chobe, the residence of a few Arabs and Ban y an traders.
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  • The western two-thirds consists of a low plain, composed of an uplifted coral reef and matter washed down from the mountains; but on the E.
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  • Since the lighting no wrecks have occurred on the reef.
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  • The entrance to the inner anchorage, which has a depth of about 20 ft., is opposite Fort Brum in the northern part of the city, and is marked by a small Dutch fort (Picao) and a lighthouse at the northern extremity of the reef.
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  • to the banks of Suakin and Farsan in 20° N., the loo-fathom line keeps to a belt of coral reef close inshore, but in lower latitudes the shallow coral region, 300 m.
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  • Coral formations are abundant; immense reefs, both barrier and fringing, skirt both coasts, often enclosing wide channels between the reef and the land.
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  • In the neighbourhood are gold-mines, the reef appearing to form the western boundary of the Witwatersrand basin.
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  • It stands on the small estuary of the Grey or Mawhera river, has a good harbour, and railway communication with Hokitika, Reef ton, &c., while the construction of a line to connect with Christchurch and Nelson was begun in 1887.
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  • deep and is accessible through numerous breaks in the reef.
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  • The most easterly island is Frigate, the most southerly Platte; on the northern edge of the reef are Bird and Denis islands.
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  • It is approached by a deep channel through the coral reef which fringes the entire eastern side of the island.
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  • of Madagascar is the Providence group (3) formed by the piling up of sand on a surface reef of crescent shape.
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  • These are overlain, perhaps unconformably, by a great thickness of lavas and volcanic breccias (Pniel volcanic series, Beer Vley and Zeekoe Baard amygdaloids), and these in turn by the quartzites, grits and shales of the Black Reef series.
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  • Pigg's Peak and Forbes Reef are mining settlements in northern Swaziland.
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  • The black coral (Antipathes abies), formerly abundant in the Persian Gulf, and for which India is the chief market, has a wide distribution and grows to a considerable height and thickness in the tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
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  • An opening on the northern side of the reef permits the entrance of vessels into the northern part of the lagoon, which forms a good harbour known as Port Refuge or Port Albion.
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  • In the district, which is chiefly pastoral, there are several goldfields, with both alluvial and reef mining.
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  • The reef is healthy and is peppered with sponges and a wealth of life, including angelfish, morays, grouper and wrasse.
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  • annular reef on the northwest side is broken, and blends into a shoal sandbank, on which the sea breaks.
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  • We specialize in marine fish, corals & invertebrates ideal for reef aquarium set ups.
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  • The upper deck five sailing vessels barrier reef aquatic dioramas.
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  • A similar system could be used in SCUBA diving, coral reef conservation, salvage and marine archeology.
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  • The larger fish include humphead wrasse, schools of large batfish and small white-tip reef sharks.
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  • biogenic reef have also been selected.
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  • A particular aim of the study was to acquire further knowledge on the abundance and distribution of Sabellaria reef and its associated biota.
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  • Survey of chalk cave, cliff, intertidal and subtidal reef biotopes in the Thanet coast cSAC.
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  • calcium carbonate skeletons gradually accumulate and the reef grows.
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  • The Jetsetter Ocean-Themed Tote by Reef, available at Zappos.com, is a lightweight, roomy tote with an eye-catching blue-multi and yellow print.
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  • Popular locations for snorkeling include the Caribbean, the Great Barrier Reef, Galapagos Islands, the Red Sea, and the Hawaiian Islands.
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  • The coral reef network surrounding Cozumel, the second largest in the world (after Australia's Great Barrier Reef), gained world recognition in 1959 when French oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau, discovered the island.
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  • Examples of active vacations are biking through Tuscany or Provence, scuba diving in the Cayman Islands or Australia's Great Barrier Reef, or hiking in the foothills of the Alps.
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  • The resort's kids' programs are world-class and include fun adventures like a day sailing trip to Buck Island Reef and nature walks where kids pick and taste local fruit.
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  • It comes in Coral Reef, Sea Breeze Blue and Kiwi.
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  • In addition to extreme temperatures, cast and crew had to deal with local wildlife like the Great Coral Reef and seabirds.
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  • The town lies immediately north of the central part of the main gold reef.
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  • There are several series of parallel beds, interstratified with quartzite and schist, the most important being the "main reef" series.
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  • broad, is surrounded by an extensive and dangerous coral reef.
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  • It is this reef which essentially forms the atoll.
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  • Coral atolls Belize boasts three offshore atolls: Turneffe, Glover's Reef and Lighthouse Reef.
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  • You will often see a barracuda or three patrolling the bottom of the reef where it joins the sand.
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  • On out-going tides The Zoo has barracuda, reef sharks and eagle and manta rays.
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  • barrier reef, one of the world's premier diving spots.
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  • The island is three kilometers off the coast of Guam and is surrounded by a vast barrier reef.
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  • The east side of the island has the barrier reef as a back drop and is a mere stone's throw from the island.
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  • The barrier reef, which is 185 miles long, is the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere.
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  • barrier reef aquatic dioramas.
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  • barrier reef systems in the world.
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  • The shore terrace descends by a steep cliff to the sea, forming the "rise" of a submarine "tread" in the form of a reef which surrounds the island.
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  • The port of Pernambuco, or Recife, is formed by a stone reef lying across the entrance to a shallow bay at the mouth of two small rivers, Beberibe and Capibaribe, and is accessible to steamers of medium draught.
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  • The entire island is an old coral reef upheaved 200 ft., honeycombed with caves and seamed with fissures.
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  • In the great gale of 1799 seventy sail, including the "York," 74 guns, were wrecked off the reef, and this disaster compelled the authorities to take steps to protect shipping.
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  • Off the Queensland coast the shelf broadens, its outer edge being lined by the seaward face of the Great Barrier Reef.
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  • Ocean-going steamers anchor outside the reef.
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  • The Leeward Islands are Tubai or Motuiti, a small uninhabited lagoon island, the most northern of the group; Marua or Maupiti - "Double Mountain," the most western; BolaBola or Bora-Bora; Huaheine; Raiatea or Ulietea (Spanish Princessa), the largest island of this cluster, and Tahaa, which approach each other very closely, and are encircled by one reef.
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  • Not far from St Augustine a spring bursts through the sea itself with such force that the ocean breakers roll back from it as from a sunken reef.
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  • Around the coast there is a raised shelf of limestone which was undoubtedly a coral reef.
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  • The flat summit is formed by a succession of limestones - all deposited in shallow water - from the Eocene (or Oligocene) up to recent deposits in the above-mentioned atoll with islands on its reef.
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  • The following groups are recognized: Waterberg Series, Pretoria Series, Dolomite Series, Black Reef Series.
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  • The key exhibit, covering most of the ground floor, is the Molasses Reef Wreck, an early 16th-century Spanish caravel.
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  • You can also visit the Outer Reef by high-speed catamaran or helicopter.
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  • cay located right on the Great Barrier Reef (off the Queensland coast from Gladstone ).
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  • North West Island - the largest coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, covering an area of 91 hectares.
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  • coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, covering an area of 91 hectares.
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  • At about 7 meters the reef appeared colorful with large fields of staghorn corals.
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  • The Island has a fringing coral reef with the best snorkeling and diving at Catseye Beach.
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  • A proposed Lord Howe Island Marine Reserve: protecting the southernmost coral reef in the World.
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  • There is some good diving on the somewhat damaged coral reef of the Mombasa Marine National Park, off the Nyali headland.
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  • You can also see the coral reef just out from the beach which saves going on organized ' cruises ' .
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  • Beach A long stretch of soft white sand protected by an offshore coral reef, which disappears at high tide.
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  • The centerpiece of the aquarium is the spectacular coral reef housed within a giant ocean display.
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  • Kids will love the blaze of color of the tropical coral reef or watching otters slide in and out of the water.
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  • coral reef in the world.
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  • crannyadded: But of course, its not just divers that are busy exploring the nooks and crannies of the new reef.
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  • The spectacular reef walls, with some flat reef crests to explore at shallower levels, provide the majority of dive sites.
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  • You can take a trip on a fishing dhow, swim or snorkel around the reef or explore quiet towns nearby.
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  • Once you have passed this you are able to join the twice-daily dive expeditions or opt to dive the house reef off the beach.
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  • We suited up, entered the water and began a shallow dive following the reef along the cliff.
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  • drift dive along the reef at the mouth of Lac Bay.
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  • The reef top is sand and has a sloping drop-off.
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  • Here you will find a steep drop-off with a healthy population of reef fish.
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  • The reef is one of the last homes to the rare dugong.
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  • How can Reef Entertainment justify releasing this effluence on the general public?
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  • At this moment we were about fifty feet from the rocky eminence, which extended a long reef into the sea.
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  • encircled by a reef which harbors a lagoon of turquoise waters.
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  • encircleas become a marine reserve, protected from the open ocean by an encircling coral reef.
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  • environment created by the reef builders.
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  • Careless Reef An offshore reef Carless has two large ergs rising from a shallow plateau surrounded by sheer walls rising from the deep.
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  • A tiger patterned fish among clusters of brightly colored coral reef or the flowing shapes of seaweed may look more exciting.
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  • Our next location was the reef facies of Cave Dale.
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  • fiddling contest square reef from day the young lady.
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  • Their versions of of another prime the reef fishers arriving on banco.
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  • Fusiliers hover in shoals just off the reef, and butterfly fish flit between the corals.
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  • The site is teeming with fish, which use the numerous overhangs as shelter between their hunting forays out on the reef.
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  • fringee are over 100 dive sites around the island and the fringing reef provides fantastic snorkeling.
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  • Nano Reef tank 11 gallon Bow Front i have a approx 11 gallon tank which is semi.. .
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  • gobyecies include gobies, blennies, wrasse, Sea horses, reef sharks, Leopard shark, red coral trout and snappers.
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  • Josh went for the Reef N Beef sizzling platter of extravagantly char grilled skewered prawns atop a vast rump steak.
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  • The visibility is usually excellent and sitings of schools of devil rays, giant grouper and reef sharks are common.
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  • Because the tourist hordes, bound for the Great Barrier Reef, generally don't.
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  • In the sublittoral this steep-sided, wave-sheltered reef is dominated by a dense hydroid and bryozoan turf with anemones and ascidians.
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  • We also saw Caribbean reef and silky sharks and a huge jewfish.
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  • Tuesday, September 13, we headed out to Christie Reef, a steep reef with a lot of bull kelp.
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  • Some outcrops of limestone in the Clitheroe area, for example, have been derived from reef knolls formed in a prehistoric sea.
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  • In all cases, the ties are tied with a reef knot, designed a ' purpose.
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  • Each island is surrounded by a reef enclosing a shallow lagoon.
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  • The photo lander will be left next to the 14 km long Sula reef for the next three weeks.
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  • The attempt to erect a lighthouse on a reef 12 miles off the coast was one of the heroic engineering feats of the day.
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  • The extensive reef is crowned by a famous lighthouse.
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  • A shallow dive with a protected coral reef within the bay and a huge granite massif descending to the sandy sea bed.
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  • A coral reef is a teeming metropolis built upon the living skeletons of tiny soft polyps.
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  • molluscish aquire the bacteria by grazing on the reef and eating mollusks and other invertebrates.
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  • The dive finishes on the shallow reef, where the guests can see a large resident moray.
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  • Encounters below the surface may include blacktip reef sharks, rays, turtles and big morays.
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  • It is worth noting that the reef was covered in a carpet of tiny juvenile mussels.
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  • She added: But of course, its not just divers that are busy exploring the nooks and crannies of the new reef.
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  • Key findings: Territorial behavior is a conspicuous determinant of social organization in many reef fishes including parrotfish.
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  • As we went over the reef, we saw a big pipefish.
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  • playful dolphins that often appear off the reef.
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  • All types of marine life have been seen here - small hammerheads and reef sharks, turtles, giant puffers, numerous small invertebrates.
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  • We even spotted a turtle happily munching away at the coral and a couple of blue spotted reef rays in the sand.
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  • red coralng or Red Rock has equally stunning scenery, but here the reef walls are draped in red soft coral.
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  • There are over 100 dive sites around the island and the fringing reef provides fantastic snorkeling.
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  • Various forms of biogenic reef have also been selected.
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  • The package should also fund Britain's first artificial surf reef.
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  • Entire islands were created, perhaps starting from a mangrove base or a submerged reef.
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  • What a dive Dolphins, White tip reef shark, safety stops swimming along the reef shark, safety stops swimming along the reef wall.
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  • reef aquarium.
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  • reef knot, designed a ' purpose.
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  • reef fish can be found here.
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  • reef ecosystems.
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  • reef fishers.
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  • Although rare, you might even spot the white-tip reef shark or the larger gray reef shark.
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  • The reef is alive with a vibrant living coral reef.
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  • Saw a small whitetip reef shark on entering the water.
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  • On one occasion a black-tip reef shark took an unhealthy interest in one of the team's fins.
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  • The National Marine Aquarium's Scylla diving reef is still proving very popular nearly a year and a half after it was sunk.
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  • Once inside the reef area the scenery was very different, very sandy with the occasional rocky outcrop.
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  • schooling fish, here you will find any other reef species you can name.
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  • Depth ranges from 29m on the surrounding seabed to an average of 25m on the top of the reef.
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  • They settle on other worm tubes, building large mounds that eventually transform a flat sandy gravelly seabed into an extensive reef.
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  • seafloor mapping, with particular reference to coral reef conservation in developing nations.
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  • What a dive Dolphins, White tip reef shark, safety stops swimming along the reef wall.
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  • The hull is an entire coral reef in its own right, artillery shells now fused into the coral masses.
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  • This reef is the site of several historic shipwrecks; however, the dive takes place on the deep water side along the wall.
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  • The calcium carbonate skeletons gradually accumulate and the reef grows.
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  • Fishing in a small skiff, just off the edge of the reef, we experienced light tackle sport at its best.
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  • snorkel on the reef.
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  • southern tip of the reef.
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  • enjoy the splendor of our protected coral reef adorned with tropical marine life.
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  • spotter plane is used to circle above the reef looking for whale sharks.
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  • Marine Life There are several reefs scattered around with urchins, sponges, starfish, octopus qnd many species of reef fish.
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  • The larger reef fish are also present as are blue spotted stingrays resting half hidden on the sandy bottom.
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  • A series of dramatic granitic pinnacles just break the surface and are the home for giant stingrays, reef sharks and pristine coral formations.
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  • stomped forward and hauled the main down a reef.
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  • The reef structures are called stromatolites, which means they are sheet, or layered in shape.
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  • stromatolite reef is no longer current scientific usage.
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  • Rock face is on the southern tip of the reef.
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  • Marianne island Diving with large numbers of gray reef sharks: the underwater topography of Marianne is exceptional.
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  • Hence there was an inevitable trade-off between these two factors in choosing our study reef.
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  • Marine life encountered on the reef includes large triggerfish, kingfish and wrasse.
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  • On top of the reef Titan triggerfish may be seen biting and moving dead coral to build nests in which to lay their eggs.
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  • tropical fish found among dense areas of coral reef.
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  • There are some great wartime wrecks and there is a very active artificial reef program busily sinking more wrecks every year.
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  • white sharkven discover a white tip reef shark or two taking a nap.
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  • The humphead wrasse, that can fetch up to $ 130 per kilo in the live reef fish trade, has also benefited.
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  • wrecked on a reef.
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  • The shore terrace descends by a steep cliff to the sea, forming the "rise" of a submarine "tread" in the form of fringing reef which surrounds the island and is never uncovered, even at low water, except in Flying Fish Cove, where the only landing-place exists.
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  • to the banks of Suakin and Farsan in 20° N., the loo-fathom line keeps to a belt of coral reef close inshore, but in lower latitudes the shallow coral region, 300 m.
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  • "I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: ' Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.'" Emerson died on the 27th of April 1882, and his body was laid to rest in the peaceful cemetery of Sleepy Hollow, in a grove on the edge of the village of Concord.
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  • Hin Daeng or Red Rock has equally stunning scenery, but here the reef walls are draped in red soft coral.
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  • The package should also fund Britain 's first artificial surf reef.
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  • Both the absolute concentrations and the concentrations of these elements relative to each other change rapidly in the reef aquarium.
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  • Virtually every species of Red Sea reef fish can be found here.
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  • Professor Mumby is distinguished for his contributions to our understanding of coral reef ecosystems.
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  • Better job by yalta odessa heraklion first rci ship the reef fishers.
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  • On one occasion a black-tip reef shark took an unhealthy interest in one of the team 's fins.
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  • The National Marine Aquarium 's Scylla diving reef is still proving very popular nearly a year and a half after it was sunk.
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  • If you can tear your eyes off the schooling fish, here you will find any other reef species you can name.
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  • A low-cost procedure for automatic seafloor mapping, with particular reference to coral reef conservation in developing nations.
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  • The reef is crowded with massive shoals of snappers.
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  • Simulations on over fifteen reef island settings found maximum shoreline erosion between three and thirty meters for a one meter increase in sea level.
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  • We have already had the first two of our three boat trips to snorkel on the reef.
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  • Enjoy the splendor of our protected coral reef adorned with tropical marine life.
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  • A spotter plane is used to circle above the reef looking for whale sharks.
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  • I creaked upright and stomped forward and hauled the main down a reef.
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  • This means the term " algal " stromatolite reef is no longer current scientific usage.
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  • On top of the reef titan triggerfish may be seen biting and moving dead coral to build nests in which to lay their eggs.
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  • Look carefully at the intricate patterns and bright colors of tropical fish found among dense areas of coral reef.
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  • You may even discover a white tip reef shark or two taking a nap.
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  • She is an item in the natural order, a ship wrecked on a reef.
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  • The environment you create with your tank is similar to a coral reef in the ocean.
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  • At the Shark Reef Aquarium, you can learn more about sharks and other aquatic life, and if you are brave enough, you can even dive with the sharks.
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  • All of these items are brand name items including products from Lee, Wrangler, Nautica, Vanity Fair, Majestic, JanSport, Angels, Derek Heart, Timber Creek, Riders, Reef, Olga, Warner's, and a host of other brand name inventory.
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  • If you want the warmth of red but with something a little more subtle, the pinks of Coral Reef and Rosy Apple might be the choices for you.
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  • This collection is inspired by the colors found in an underwater tropical reef, such as coral pinks in soft shades of blue and cream.
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  • These colors are in stark contrast to the soft, pastel tones of the Coral Reef Collection.
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  • Antigua: More relaxed than most Caribbean ports, Antigua offers sedate nature trails and cultural tours in addition to fabulous cave, reef, and shipwreck diving opportunities.
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  • After the sun sets lights mounted in the hull of the vessel illuminate the reef and offer the opportunity to view the island's nocturnal sea life, including Kona's famous manta rays.
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  • It comes in colors such as Clay, Reef Green and White.
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  • The Reef Sunglass Frame is easy breezy in appearance, and comes in an assorted set of sporty colors to choose from.
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  • Coral Reef Cavern: The splashtastic activity pool features water basketball and a floating lily-pad maze.
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  • It is believed that this type of reef will help with the recovery of reefs that have been decimated by pollution.
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  • California Academy of Sciences - Totally redesigned in 2008, this complex includes the Steinheart Aquarium with the deepest coral reef in the world and about 38,000 animals.
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  • The most extensive part of this new aquarium construction is the Philippine Coral Reef, which measures 25 feet deep.
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  • Splash Zone & Penguins: Especially fun for the kids, this discovery zone features kelp, a coral reef and rocky shore.
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  • Coco Reef Swimwear by Roxanne caters to women who are young, full busted and looking for swimsuit separates.
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  • Again, Roxanne took up the challenge and introduced the Coco Reef Swimwear line.
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  • Coco Reef Swimwear delivers bikinis, tankinis and more in gorgeous fabric prints that put a fresh spin on full figured swimwear.
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  • Roxanne and Coco Reef swimsuits do not have their own website at this time, so you're going to have to do a little searching to find them.
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  • TheFind.com by far yielded the largest selection of Coco Reef bathing suits because this search engine gathers listings from many online retailers and eBay.
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  • Carabella offers a fantastic Coco Reef tankini in a bright island floral top, paired with a solid black bottom.
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  • The Swim Diva Dot Halter and Swim Skirt is another flirtatious, yet fitting swimsuit from the Coco Reef collection.
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  • Lord and Taylor has a limited selection of Coco Reef swimsuits.
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  • Head to Reef Gear for a variety of rash guard shirts and accessories, including full body wetsuits, plain tees and sweatshirts, and active-style mock neck shirts.
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  • She recognizes her Virgo's shortcomings and dives past the reef he erects to protect himself from being hurt or disappointed.
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  • Knotted Segment Lacing: This is similar to the Criss-Cross Lacing that most of us are familiar with, but there is a reef knot in the middle.
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  • Crown Reef: This resort features amenities such as kiddie pools, a lazy river, fitness center, and laundry, as well as a summer kids activities program.
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  • The reef in scarcely any instance exceeds 600 ft.
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  • The French headquarters are on the islet of Zaudzi, which lies within the reef in 12° 46' S., 45° 20' E.
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