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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 ...
In 1981, the Great Barrier Reef was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [11] From the middle of 2004, approximately one-third of the GBR Marine Park is protected from species removal of any kind, including fishing, without written permission. [62] It was suggested in 1923 that the Great Barrier Reef contains a major oil reservoir.
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.
At Ramsay Bay on the northeast coast, a transgressive dune barrier or tombolo links Cape Sandwich, a granite outlier at the northeastern tip of the island, to the main part of the island. The barrier is widest in the north with a maximum width of about one kilometre (0.62 miles) and narrows to the south to a width of about 100 to 200 metres ...
Heron Island, Australia. A cay (/ ˈ k iː, ˈ k eɪ / KEE), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef.Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef.
A circuit court judge upheld a Beaufort County zoning board decision denying a permit needed to build the resort.
Holiday names are usually pretty straightforward. New Year's, Thanksgiving and — perhaps least creatively, the 4th of July — all have origins that are fairly easy to figure out.
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