Is the great barrier reef the largest coral reef ?

Question

Is the great barrier reef the largest coral reef ?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres .

Answer 3

Yes it is but with the rate it is deteriorating it might soon die out due to coral bleaching.The truth is that a significant area of the great barrier reef is being completely bleached.We are losing valuable species of fish and coral.

Answer 4

Yes it is

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system,[1][2] composed of over 2,900 individual reefs[3] and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres (1,616 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (132,974 sq mi).[4][5] The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms.[6] This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps.[7] The Great Barrier Reef supports a wide diversity of life, and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.[1][2] CNN has labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world.[8] The Queensland National Trust has named it a state icon of Queensland.[9]

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as overfishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.

Answer 5

Yes it is.

Answer 6

Yes, and until quite recently it was the most beautiful.

Now pollution is killing it.

SAVE THE REEF!