Synonyms for great barrier reef
great bar·ri·er reef

Princeton's WordNet

1. Great Barrier Reefnoun

   the largest coral reef in the world; in the Coral Sea off the northeastern coast of Australia

Matched Categories

1. • Australia
   • Coral Reef

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1. Guillermo Blanc:

   It's like putting an oil rig in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, it's insane.

2. Feng Jing:

   We would hope that the collective efforts undertaking by the State Party of Australia will bring the change that is needed to ensure the sustainable conservation of the Great Barrier Reef.

3. Sean Ryan:

   This case is about whether the minister correctly applied the law when considering the impacts of the project on the Great Barrier Reef and endangered Black-throated finch.

4. Terry Hughes:

   This has been the saddest research trip of my life, almost without exception, every reef we flew across showed consistently high levels of bleaching, from the reef slope right up onto the top of the reef. We flew for 4000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in the most pristine parts of the Great Barrier Reef and saw only four reefs that had no bleaching. The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 1998.

5. Scott Bryan:

   The pumice gets waterlogged or negatively buoyant and sinks to the sea floor and gets logged and stuck there, then those plants and animals and Great Barrier Reef can then continue to grow and grow in this new location.