* Capricorn and Bunker Group, islands of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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.

The outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef is the boundary between Queensland and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.

While travelling south along the north Queensland coast, the Gothenburg encountered a cyclone-strength storm and was wrecked on a section of the Great Barrier Reef.

* 1875 – The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

* 1770 – Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

This is the only large-scale long-distance car / passenger shipping service left, with all others restricted to short ferry routes to islands like Stewart Island / Rakiura or Great Barrier Island.

One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia.

"</ tt > The expedition arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf ( then known as " the Great Ice Barrier ") at a large inlet called the Bay of Whales on 14 January 1911, where Amundsen located his base camp and named it Framheim.

Great Barrier Island ( often colloquially just The Barrier ) is the fourth-largest island of New Zealand's main chain of islands.

With an area of, Great Barrier is the sixth-largest island in New Zealand after the South Island, the North Island, Stewart Island / Rakiura, Chatham Island, and Auckland Island.

Note that despite its name, Great Barrier Island not a sandbar barrier which is often defined as the correct use of the term.

A kauri driving dam on Great Barrier Island, 1967.

If restarted, mining at White Cliffs would occur in the same area it originally proliferated on Great Barrier.

In modern days, Great Barrier Islanders are generally occupied in tourism, farming or service-related industries, when not working off-island in other jobs.

Great Barrier Island pigeon post stamp.

As a result a Great Barrier Island pigeon post service was set up, the first message being flown on 14 May 1897.

Great Barrier is free of some of the more troublesome introduced pests that plague the native ecosystems of other parts of New Zealand.

Great Barrier Island in 2006 had a permanent population of around 850, primarily in coastal settlements such as Tryphena, the largest settlement in Tryphena Harbour at the southern end of the island.

There are airfields at Claris ( Great Barrier Aerodrome ) and Okiwi.

Great Barrier Airlines and Fly My Sky ( formerly Mountain Air ) operate services from Auckland Airport, and North Shore Aerodrome.

There are two ferry services to Great Barrier Island.

For example, every transport service operated solely on Great Barrier Island, the Chatham Islands, or Stewart Island / Rakiura is exempt from section 70C of the Transport Act 1962 ( the requirements for drivers to maintain driving-hours logbooks ).

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

His latest large scale resort project involved designing and rejuvenating the landscape, furniture, sculpture and gardens at Hayman Island and it ’ s private estates on Australia ’ s Great Barrier Reef, after they were devastated by tropical cyclones Anthony and Yasi.

Corals can be major contributors to the physical structure of the coral reefs that develop in tropical and subtropical waters, such as the enormous Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Image: Glass bottom boats & Semi sub. JPG | Glass bottom boats and a Semi submarine which are used for coral viewing at Green Island ( Queensland ), Great Barrier Reef, Australia

* Great Barrier Reef Biosearch-Coral Spawning

The Great Barrier Reef provides important feeding areas for the species ; this reef area houses a stable population of around 10, 000, although the population concentration has shifted over time.

In the Great Barrier Reef, dugongs feed on low-fibre high-nitrogen seagrass such as Halophila and Halodule, so as to maximize nutrient intake instead of bulk eating.

Many coral reefs, cays, and islands to the east — such as Ambergris Caye, Lighthouse Reef, Glover Reef, and the Turneffe Islands — are part of Belize's territory, forming the Belize Barrier Reef, the longest in the western hemisphere stemming approximately and the second longest in the world after the Great Barrier Reef.

Commonwealth and off-shore protected areas in the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands Territory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Australia, a division of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, with the exception of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a separate body within the department.

* Great Barrier Reef

On the shores north and south, the fishers and mooncursers -- smugglers -- lived along the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier of sand, Fire Island.

Great chapters of history have been recorded along the avenue, now about 169 years old.

The most brilliant displays are along the Skyline Drive above Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and throughout the Great Smokies between North Carolina and Tennessee.

The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.

Acrux and Mimosa make up one foot of the Great Rhea, a constellation encompassing Centaurus and Circinus along with the two bright stars.

In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

In some parts of the world ethnology has developed along independent paths of investigation and pedagogical doctrine, with cultural anthropology becoming dominant especially in the United States, and social anthropology in Great Britain.

The Sumida River ( then called the Great River, 大川 ), ran along the eastern edge of the city.

That is, The Great Train Robbery contains scenes shot on sets of a telegraph station, a railroad car interior, and a dance hall, with outdoor scenes at a railroad water tower, on the train itself, at a point along the track, and in the woods.

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

The Great Auk was found in the cold North Atlantic coastal waters along the coasts of Canada, the northeastern United States, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Great Britain, France, and northern Spain.

Today, 78 skins of the Great Auk remain mostly in museum collections, along with around 75 eggs and 24 complete skeletons.

: Bill Moyers: But what happened along the way to this reverence that in primitive societies was directed to the Goddess figure, the Great Goddess, the mother earth-what happened to that?

In the Roman Catholic Church he is numbered among the Doctors of the Church ; in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches he is revered as one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, along with Basil the Great and John Chrysostom.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

He met their leaders along with their French and Scot allies at Runnymede, near London on 15 June 1215 to seal the Great Charter ( Magna Carta in Latin ), which imposed legal limits on the king's personal powers.

Wesley's contribution, along with the Second Great Awakening in America led to a new style called gospel, and a new explosion of sacred music writing with Fanny Crosby, Lina Sandell, Philip Bliss, Ira D. Sankey, and others who produced testimonial music for revivals, camp meetings, and evangelistic crusades.

Through the intervention of the Great Powers however, Greece lost only a little territory along the border to Turkey, while Crete was established as an autonomous state under Prince George of Greece.

The Jutes, along with some Angles, Saxons and Frisians, sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade Great Britain from the late 4th century onwards, either displacing, absorbing, or destroying the native Celtic peoples there.

In January 2002, the partially nude female statue of the Spirit of Justice, which stands in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, where Ashcroft held press conferences, was covered with blue curtains, along with its male counterpart, the Majesty of Law.

They traveled along the Great Salt Lake into Oregon.

The French then established a chain of posts along the Mississippi from New Orleans to the Great Lakes.

The Loch Ness is located along the Great Glen Fault, and this could be a description of an earthquake.