Sea

Coral Sea

The Coral Sea holds the Great Barrier Reef, the largest living structure on Earth: nearly 3,000 individual reefs stretching 1,429 miles, large enough to be visible from space.

Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Coral Sea label sits at 18.3° S, 156.9° E, in the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Strait of Malacca — about 6,900 km west
• Yangtze — about 7,000 km north-west
• Indian Ocean — about 7,200 km south-west
• South Pacific Ocean — about 7,800 km south-east

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