Friday, April 1, 2011

The coral triangle

The Coral Triangle is a large area that spans approximately 2.3 million square miles of ocean. It encompasses the following six countries in the Indo-Pacific: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. It is famous, because living in its waters are the highest diversity of lustrous and colourful corals, sea life, and marine plant species in the world.

View The Coral Triangle in a larger map

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