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Coral Reefs and The Great Barrier Reef : Marine colony bigger than few countries.

What comes to your mind when I say ‘Australia’? The mighty world champion cricket team of past few decades, and a lot of sad evenings because of Indian cricket team’s lost matches to them, right? The heart-breaking defeat of WC 2003 final is still etched in our minds, even after the WC win of 2011. Their cricketing supremacy over a span of so many decades raises no doubt. It got them a lot of haters, especially Indian cricket fans, but that’s just another testament of their achievements. But while Indian cricket team in touring England, why are we talking about Australia? The reason is not cricket. Cricket is what we know most about Australia. Many of us can talk about cricket stats for Ind-Aus encounters, in our sleep. So, we will not talk about it today. What we will talk about instead, is another world champion stuff from Australia. The Great Barrier Reef . The Great Barrier Reef located off the coast of Queensland, in the Coral Sea, is the largest coral reef system in