Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is a gathering of brilliant, vivid coral providing divers with the most spectacular underwater experience imaginable!

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world.

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef  is larger than the Great Wall of China

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef  is the only living thing on earth visible from space. 

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef has over 300 species of hard, reef-building corals, more than 4,000 mollusc species and over 400 species of sponges have been identified.

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef is composed of over 2,900 individual reefs

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef has over 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres

Fact: Thirty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises have been recorded in the Great Barrier Reef

Fact: Six species of sea turtles come to the reef to breed

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef has around 20 types of reptiles including sea turtles and giant clams over 120 years old.

Fact: 215 species of birds (including 22 species of seabirds and 32 species of shorebirds) visit the reef or nest or roost on the islands

Fact: Seventeen species of sea snake live on the Great Barrier Reef

Fact: More than 1,500 fish species live on the reef
Fact: The Great Barrier Reef has the world's largest collection of corals (in fact, more than 400 different kinds of coral)

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world measuring 2011 km in length and 72 km across at its widest point making it the world's largest World Heritage Areas and Australia's first World Heritage Areas.

Fact: The reef, between 15 kilometres and 150 kilometres off shore and around 65 Km wide in some parts.

Fact: The Great Barrier Reef stretches over 3000km (1800 miles) almost parallel to the Queensland coast, from near the coastal town of Bundaberg, up past the tip of Cape York.