What is Australia's largest fringing coral reef?

Ewokman

The Great Barrier Reef http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef Apr 11 09, 1:00 PM

Midget40

Coral reefs are divided into four main types: fringing reef, platform reefs, barrier reefs and atolls. http://www.starfish.ch/reef/reef.html The Great Barrier is definately a barrier reef not a fringing reef Apr 11 09, 1:10 PM

Watchkeeper

Ningaloo Reef. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningaloo_Reef Since the answer is not "the Great Barrier Reef", is that an example of a "reef not"? Apr 11 09, 2:11 PM

scottietwenty3

Ningaloo Reef is a fringing coral reef located off the west coast of Australia, approximately 1200 km north of Perth. The reef is 280 km long and is Australia's largest fringing coral reef and the only large reef positioned very close to a landmass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningaloo_Reef A Fringing reef is a kind of coral reefCoral reef Coral reefs grow in tropical seas in the photic zone, where there is mild wave action, not so strong it tears the reef apart yet strong enough to stir the water and deliver sufficient food and oxygen.... , that is located in the tropicsTropics The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere, at approximately 2330' N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at... generally immediately near the shoreline. This type of coral reef is the most common type of reef that is found. This type of reef grows the best on some kind of hard surface, so it preferentially grows on areas with rocky bottoms. They may also grow on softer bottoms as well if there are some hard areas. Fringing reefs grow as a thin strip along the shore at a rate of about 2 to 7mm per year. It is Darwin’s belief that fringing reefs are the first kind of reefs to form around a landmass in a long-term reef growth process. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between fringing reefs and another type of reef called a barrier reef. One of the ways that these two types of reefs are separated is based on the depth of the lagoon in the back reef which is the area near to shore. If the water in the lagoon is less than 10m deep it is a fringing reef. Another major difference is that barrier reefs tend to be farther away from shore than fringing reefs and have a larger lagoon. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Fringing_reef Apr 11 09, 8:08 PM

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