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Great Barrier Reef's Continuity
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Many people remember the Great Barrier Reef as a single, unbroken, continuous coral structure, rather than the complex system of individual reefs and islands it truly is.
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What People Remember
People recall the Great Barrier Reef as one giant, continuous wall of coral, visible as a single entity.
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What's Actually True
The Great Barrier Reef is composed of over 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching over 2,300 kilometers, making it a vast, fragmented system.
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#reefs#australia#ocean#ecosystem
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