New Caledonia Barrier Reef
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New Caledonia Barrier Reef
NEW CALEDONIA
The New Caledonia Barrier Reef is located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific, and is the second-longest coral reef in the world, after Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The reef encloses a lagoon of 24,000 square km, which has an average depth of 25 m. The reefs lie up to 30 km from the shore, but extend almost 200 km to the Entrecasteaux reefs to the northwest. The reef has great species diversity with a high level of endemism, and is home to endangered dugongs, and is an important nesting site for Green Sea Turtle.
