Located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, the Lagoons of New Caledonia is composed of six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French Pacific Ocean archipelago of New Caledonia. It’s the third largest coral reef structure in the world.

The lagoons features an exceptional diversity of coral and fish species and a continuum of habitats from mangroves to sea grasses. It display intact ecosystems, with healthy populations of large predators, and a great number and diversity of big fish. The reef systems provide habitat to a number of threatened fish, turtles, and marine mammals, including the third largest population of dugongs in the world. These Lagoons are of exceptional natural beauty, and contain reefs of varying age from living reefs to ancient fossil reefs, providing an important source of information on the natural history of Oceania.

It is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is considered the world’s largest coral reef system and is the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms, the coral polyps.

The Great Barrier Reef is so large that it can be seen from outer space. It is made up of around 3,000 individual reefs and over 900 islands and it stretches for more than 1,600 miles.

Located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is composed of more than 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 1,600 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 sq miles. The Great Barrier Reef supports a wide diversity of marine life.