Rounding a sandy curve it quickly became obvious: the staggering beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef coast.
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The study said improving water quality was key to controlling starfish outbreaks, with increased agricultural run-off such as fertiliser along the reef coast causing algal blooms that starfish larvae feed on.
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.
The first lobsters are set to be released at an artificial reef off the Dorset coast during the summer.
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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The artificial surf reef off the Dorset coast at Boscombe, which has been shut due to safety concerns, is thought to have been damaged by a boat propeller.
The surf of Western Australia's Margaret River is often described as "epic" while the other 12, 500km of the Indian Ocean coast has surreally un-peopled reef, point and beach breaks giving way to shimmering 10m tides up north.
To explore the potential for using the reef as part of the coast protection, the council has asked New Zealand-based consultants, Artificial Surfing Reefs Ltd (ASR) to carry out the study.
Seldom mentioned in guidebooks and closer to Jakarta than to Sydney, the coast stretches 750 miles north to the tip of the Ningaloo Reef.
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.
The consultation provided the first opportunity for all key stakeholders to convene and discuss the safeguarding of Nan Madol, a complex of archaeological sites built on a coastal reef flat near the small Tewen Island on the east coast of Pohnpei.
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.
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