Rounding a sandy curve it quickly became obvious: the staggering beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef coast.
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The project consists of three mines holding 7.92 billion tons of coal resources, a planned 300 mile railway capable of carrying 60 million tons annually, and a port built to the same capacity at Abbot Point on Australia's Great Barrier Reef coast.
It is also protected by a huge barrier reef which protects the coast from storms (it is in a hurricane zone).
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After Hurricane Katrina hit, we realized those barrier islands would have been good at helping protect the coast.
And by using the global positioning satellite network, vessels' positions can be monitored automatically, as is already the case around the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Georges Bank off the coast of Maine.
The Great Barrier Reef, 1, 400 miles of coral off the coast of Queensland, is far better known, but the Ningaloo in many ways trumps it.
So it's like the Corps of Engineers removed a coastal barrier that used to be made out of ice and the coast is no longer protected.
We've already seen 220 miles worth of levees and flood walls repaired, and we are working to strengthen the wetlands and barrier islands that are the first line of defense for the Gulf Coast. (Applause.) This isn't just critical to this region's physical protection, it's critical to our environment, it's critical to our economy.
If you are collecting capitals stop off at Brisbane, but most continue to tropical Cairns, a jumping-off point for cruising the Great Barrier Reef, the coral-jewelled necklace that makes the most stunning adornment to this coast.
Since 1984 London has been safely protected by the Thames Flood Barrier, built to prevent a repeat of storm surge that caused widespread destruction and killed 307 people along the east coast of England in 1953.
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