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In 2016 it was the second biggest selling branded over-the-counter medication sold in Great Britain, with sales of £66.3 million. [3] Calpol also comes in a form containing ibuprofen, marketed under the name Calprofen. Calpol Night, a product containing paracetamol and an antihistamine, was listed for use from 2+ months. However, this was ...
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. [citation needed] [clarification needed] The first European to sight the Great Barrier Reef was James Cook in 1770, who sailed and mapped the east coast of ...
The sea received its name because of its numerous coral formations. They include the Great Barrier Reef, which extends about 2,000 km (1,200 mi) along the northeast coast of Australia and includes approximately 2,900 individual reefs [11] and 1000 islands. [12] The Chesterfield Islands and Lihou Reef are the largest atolls of the Coral Sea.
Why Australia doesn't want to list the Great Barrier Reef as endangered
Great Barrier Reef, in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia; Gilf Kebir, Arabic for "the Great Barrier," a plateau in the New Valley Governorate of the remote southwest corner of Egypt; Great Ice Barrier, a later 19th–early 20th century name for the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
In 1981, the Great Barrier Reef was inscribed on the world heritage list. [10] Tourism is regarded to be an important way that Australia can fulfill its duty to present the Great Barrier Reef in accordance with the world heritage convention. [6] In the 1980s, tourism in the Great Barrier Reef region expanded rapidly. [11]
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) is responsible for the care and protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.It uses a range of tools to manage the marine park including Acts and Regulations, zoning plan, plans of management, traditional owner agreements, partnerships, stewardship and best practice, education, research and monitoring and reporting.
Nigger Head is the name of a small island in the northern part of Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 30 km north of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia. [1] It was named so because it is an isolated coral outcrop; such outcrops were known as niggerheads by British ...