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Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral.
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Reef and Charles
The account of Jack Ireland, a surviving cabin boy from the barque Charles Eaton that was wrecked in 1834 at Detached Reef near the entrance to Torres Strait is of interest in this respect.
In J. Charles Delbeek's article Your First Reef Aquarium, he states,
Reef and Alexander
To learn more about the Great Florida Reef that paralleled the Florida Keys and was so dangerous to shipping, Alexander Bache invited Louis Agassiz to study the reef.
Reef and Agassiz
After graduating at Harvard, LeConte in 1851 accompanied Agassiz on an expedition to study the Florida Reef.
Reef and Coral
The outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef is the boundary between Queensland and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.
( See also Virgin Islands National Park, Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument, Buck Island Reef National Monument, Christiansted National Historic Site, and Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve.
coral reefs include Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument and the Buck Island Reef National Monument ; more than half of Saint John and nearly all of Hassel Island are owned by the U. S. National Park Service
* Project AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Course
The southernmost atolls of the world are Elizabeth Reef at 29 ° 58 ' S, and nearby Middleton Reef at 29 ° 29 ' S, in the Tasman Sea, both of which are part of the Coral Sea Islands Territory.
* Coral Reef
* Coral, The Reef & Marine Aquarium Magazine.
* Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide by Allen, G. R & R. Steene.
* Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific, Animals Life from Africa to Hawai ‘ i ( invertebrates ) by Gosliner, T., D. Behrens & G. Williams.
* NOAA CoRIS – Coral Reef Biology
* University of Southern Mississippi – Coral Reef Resource Guide
* Middleton Reef ( part of Coral Sea Islands Territory )
* Elizabeth Reef ( part of Coral Sea Islands Territory )
* Lihou Reef ( Coral Sea and Island territory )
They have compiled a Coral Reef Resilience Action Plan.
The University of Hawaii has come up with a Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program to help relocate and restore coral reefs in Hawaii.
Experimental Assessment of Coral Reef Rehabilitation Following Blast Fishing.
* Coral Reef Protection: What Are Coral Reefs ?.
* International Coral Reef Initiative
* Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Site ( US NSF )
Reef and .
This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.
Kearton and Ulyate had started the day together while Jones followed the dogs, and Means and Loveless had taken another route, and now, with the discovery of the fresh trail still unknown to him, Ulyate reined in, in the shadow of the Reef and pointed.
As they watched, Jones rode straight for the Reef.
The pack had made a bend to the north, swinging back toward the Reef, and Kearton and Ulyate could hear them faintly.
Jones came toward them fast, now, along the southern toe of the Reef, and the dogs could be heard plainly, Old John with his Grand Canyon voice outstanding above the others.
It came from the top of the Reef not half a mile away.
Jones had been about a hundred and fifty feet from her when he first broke through to the top of the Reef.
Intuition told him, however, that she was tired and winded from the run up the Reef and would not charge, yet.
For two hours they drove her from one strong point to another along the side of the Reef, trying to maneuver her onto the plain where they could get a good throw.
At this moment she was crouched in a cave-like aperture halfway down the Reef.
But without waiting for them to try it, she scattered the dogs and shot down the Reef and out across the plain.
The territory includes Ashmore Reef ( West, Middle, and East Islets ) and Cartier Island ( 70 km east ) with, a total area of within the reefs and including the lagoons, and 114, 400 m² of dry land.
Nearby Hibernia Reef, Northeast of Ashmore Reef, is not part of the territory, but belongs to Western Australia.
* Cartier Reef ( 44. 03 km² area within reef ( including lagoon )
: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.
The territory covers 780, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, and including Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group, and fifteen other reef / island groups.
The islands, cays and reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are not part of the territory, belonging to Queensland instead.
There are about 30 separate reefs and atolls, twelve being wholly submerged or drying only during low tide, and 18 others with a total of about 51 islets and cays ( 18 alone on the atoll Lihou Reef ), some of which are vegetated.
* Capitol Reef National Park, a U. S. National Park in south-central Utah
Musician Jack Bessant, the bass guitarist with the band Reef grew up on his parents ' strawberry farm, and Matt Goss and Luke Goss, former members of Bros, lived in Cheddar for nine months as children.
* 1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
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