Travel 101: Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Travel 101: Australia's Great Barrier Reef

From The Great Barrier Reef is actually a maze of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching along Australia's east coast, from north of Brisbane to Papua New Guinea. It is 1,240 miles long -- the largest living structure on Earth -- and home to a fantastic variety of marine and bird life including 400 kinds of coral, sea turtles, dolphins, dugongs and 1,500 species of fish with names as exotic as their colorings: painted sweet lips, sapphire sergeant-majors, rainbow parrot fish.Travel 101: Australia's Great Barrier Reef Email this page to a friend