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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority considers the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef to be climate change, causing ocean warming which increases coral bleaching. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Mass coral bleaching events due to marine heatwaves occurred in the summers of 1998, 2002, 2006, 2016, 2017 and 2020, [ 66 ] [ 13 ] [ 67 ] and coral ...
Off Lodestone Reef, Great Barrier Reef, north of Townsville: Swimming from the New Venture: Dennis Patrick Murphy: Male: 24: Shark bit leg, then dragged him underwater: Night: 5 m [16.5'] tiger shark [218] 1983 26 July: Off Lodestone Reef, Great Barrier Reef, north of Townsville: Swimming from the New Venture: Linda Ann Horton: Female: 21
The geologic history of the Australian continental mass is extremely prolonged and involved, ... Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. 2007. Great Barrier Reef ...
During that time, between 2016 and 2024, the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and one of the most biodiverse, suffered mass coral bleaching events. Earlier this year ...
The sea contains numerous islands and reefs, as well as the world's largest reef system, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981. All previous oil exploration projects were terminated at the GBR in 1975, and fishing is restricted in many areas. The reefs and islands of the Coral Sea are ...
The Great Barrier Reef is showing signs of repair. The reef has been suffering from a large amount of ocean bleaching due to the rise in ocean temperatures. Unfortunately, the Great Barrier Reef ...
Torres reported 'shoals', some of which may have been the northernmost atolls of the Great Barrier Reef. 1616: 25 October: Dutch captain Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht made the second recorded landfall by a European, at Dirk Hartog Island on the western coast of Australia. He left a commemorative plate, the Hartog Plate. 1618: July
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), which is responsible for managing the park, does not consider grey water or exhaust cleaning by-products to be waste under the existing ...