Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a small sea off the north east coast of Australia. It has Queensland on its west side and the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia on its east. On the north edge is the Solomon Islands, and in the south it joins the Tasman Sea. The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea. It has a warm climate, it often rains and there are often tropical cyclones. It covers an area of about four times the size of Great Britain.^[1] The WWF describe the Coral Sea as being one of the last complete tropical wilderness areas on earth. It has beautiful coral reefs with many different sea creatures including grey and white tip reef sharks, hammerheads, manta rays, tuna, barracuda, turtles, whales and the rare nautilus.^[1]

Australia claims many of the islands as part of its 780,000 square kilometre Coral Sea Islands Territory.^[2] Most of them are small coral or sand islands, and only one has few people living on it. It has a population of only four.^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Coral Sea". wwf.org.au. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Coral Sea Islands". ag.gov.au. Archived from the original on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2011.