Step 1 : Introduction to the question "3. Just one more bird's-eye view and then you can roost somewhere and catch your breath. Look down below into the Coral Sea! What is that huge reef system called?"
...1. Rainbow Reef 2. Great Barrier Reef 3. Cozumel 4. Andros The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef with nearly three thousand individual reefs. There are around nine hundred islands that stretch throughout the 133,000 square miles that this reef covers. The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The reef has the Solomon Islands to the northeast, Papua New Guinea to the north, the Tasman Sea to the south and Queensland to the west. What a bird's-eye view this is, because it can be seen from outer space. There are plenty of life forms within the reef system including the more than three thousand rainbow colored coral reefs. There are whales, dolphins and porpoises in the reef. There are sea turtles, dugongs, saltwater crocodiles, stingrays, skates, chimeras, giant clams, mollusks and so much more. There are more than two hundred species of birds that come here to roost, nest and dine. There are many varieties of sea snakes and fish. The Great Barrier Reef is a beautiful natural wonder which is important to the economy of Australia, providing food and jobs that support things like agriculture and tourism. Rainbow Reef is just off the coast of Taveuni Island, Fiji. This reef is made of white, luminescent coral. One can take the opportunity to observe the Blue Ribbon Eel, white-tip reef sharks, leopard sharks and barracudas here. Cozumel is just off the Yucatan Peninsula and was discovered by Jacques Cousteau in 1959. It is a beautiful coral reef and houses a large variety of tropical fish, one being the Splendid Toadfish, which is found nowhere else in the world. Andros is in the Bahamas and is where the third largest barrier reef in the world is. The Andros Reef is approximately one hundred and forty miles long.
