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THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
The Great Barrier Reef is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of Australia.
It stretches for 1,250 miles and covers an area of 14,300 square miles.
The Great Barrier Reef includes about 350 species of brightly colored hard corals, responsible for the formation of the reef, and about 1,500 species of birds, fish, and other varieties of underwater life.
It is the largest living coral reef system on the planet. While some parts of the Great Barrier Reef date back more than two million years, the majority of the reef began to develop about 500,000 years ago.
The Great Barrier Reef is being damaged by global warming, pollution, the huge number of tourists who visit it each year, and the crown-of-thorns starfish, a natural predator of corals.
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