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Great Barrier Reef

The world’s most extensive coral reef ecosystem, off the north-east coast of Australia.

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Permanent entity ID: 01991ad4-2df6-7c43-8a15-81e5b4c1e003
Entity type: Natural place
Canonical name: Great Barrier Reef
Aliases: GBR · Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Language: English (en)

Structured claims

WORLD_HERITAGE_AREA348,000 km²VERIFIED · QUANTITY · EXACT

WORLD_HERITAGE_INSCRIPTION1,981VERIFIED · INTEGER · YEAR

Provenance

UNESCO World Heritage CentreGreat Barrier Reef — World Heritage List

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GBRAlias

Language: en
Validity: Validity not recorded
Preferred: No
Permanent name ID: 01a02ca8-cf06-7663-a25a-75c349e03fb9

Great Barrier Reef World Heritage AreaAlias

Language: en
Validity: Validity not recorded
Preferred: No
Permanent name ID: 01a02ca8-cf07-7361-b7b7-05792172139d