print email comment close The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park URL: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au Description: Extensive material about the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system in the world, "stretching more than 2,300km along the northeast coast of Australia from the northern tip of Queensland to just north of Bundaberg." Covers tourism and recreation (including snorkeling and fishing), conservation, water quality, fisheries, and more. From the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, "the principal adviser to the [Australian] Commonwealth Government on the care and development of the ... Park." Publisher: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Extra Keywords GBRMPA World Heritage Area LII Database Information: Record 22538 created by Jennifer English on 09/05/2006 Last modification on 09/05/2006 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 09/09/2006 Published: 09/07/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22538