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Central London Reef (Filipino: Bahura ng Gitnang Quezon); Trường Sa Đông Island (Vietnamese: Đảo Trường Sa Đông); Mandarin Chinese: 中礁; pinyin: Zhōng jiāo, is a reef on the central part of the London Reefs of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The reef has been occupied by Vietnam since 1978.
The four major features within the area (Central London Reef, Cuarteron Reef, East London Reef, and West London Reef), are known by many names: [1] [2] [3] Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as:
Lighthouse Reef as seen from space. The Great Blue Hole is near the center of the photograph. The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m (1,043 ft) across and 124 m (407 ...
Balagtas Reef (Irving Reef) Ban Than Reef (Zhongzhou Reef) Boji Jiao (Erica Reef) Bombay Castle; C. Calderon Reef (Cuarteron Reef) Celerio Reef (Swallow Reef) Central London Reef; Chigua Reef (Johnson South Reef) Collins Reef (Johnson North Reef) Cuarteron Reef (Calderon Reef) D. Dallas Reef; Dangerous Ground; Dongmen Reef (Hughes Reef) E. East ...
A coral skeleton from the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Quintana Roo, Mexico The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), also popularly known as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef, is a marine region that stretches over 1,126 kilometres (700 mi) along the coasts of four countries – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras – from Isla Contoy at the northern tip of the Yucatán ...
The passage between Scott Reef South and Scott Reef Central is only 33 m (108 ft) deep, much less than the passages between the other reefs (366 m (1,201 ft) between Scott Reef South and Scott Reef North). Scott Reef North consists of a large, approximately circular-shaped, reef lying 23 km (14 mi) southwest of Seringapatam Reef. The reef is ...
A barrier reef can encircle an island, and once the island sinks below sea level a roughly circular atoll of growing coral continues to keep up with the sea level, forming a central lagoon. Should the land subside too quickly or sea level rise too fast, the coral dies as it is below its habitable depth. [1]
The following is a list of marine ecoregions, as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy. The WWF/Nature Conservancy scheme groups the individual ecoregions into 12 marine realms, which represent the broad latitudinal divisions of polar, temperate, and tropical seas, with subdivisions based on ocean basins.
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