Palau-
Palau's
most populous islands are Angaur,
Babeldaob, Koror, and Peleliu.
The latter three lie together
within the same barrier reef,
while Angaur is an oceanic island
several miles to the south. About
two-thirds of the population live
on Koror. The coral atoll of Kayangel
is situated north of these islands,
while the uninhabited Rock Islands
(about 200) are situated to the
west of the main island group
Belize
Barrier Reef-The
Belize Barrier Reef is a series
of coral reefs straddling the
coast of Belize, roughly 300 meters
(1,000 ft) offshore in the north
and 40 kilometers (25 mi) in the
south within the country limits.
The Belize Barrier Reef is a 300
kilometers (186 mi) long section
of the 900 kilometers (560 mi)
long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
System, which is continuous from
Cancún on the northeast
tip of the Yucatán Peninsula
through the Riviera Maya up to
offshore Guatemala, making it
the second largest coral reef
system in the world after the
Great Barrier Reef in Australia,
Great
Barrier Reef- The
Great Barrier Reef is the largest
coral reef system in the world,[1][2]
composed of over 2,900 individual
reefs[3] and 900 islands stretching
for over 3,000 kilometres (1,600
mi) over an area of approximately
344,400 square kilometres (133,000
sq mi).[4][5] The reef is located
in the Coral Sea, off the coast
of Queensland in northeast Australia.
Deep-Sea
Vents-A
hydrothermal vent is a fissure
in a planet's surface from which
geothermally heated water issues.
Hydrothermal vents are commonly
found near volcanically active
places, areas where tectonic plates
are moving apart, ocean basins,
and hotspots
Galápagos
Islands-Galápagos
Islands (Official name: Archipiélago
de Colón; other Spanish
names: Islas de Colón or
Islas Galápagos) are an
archipelago of volcanic islands
distributed around the equator
in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west
of continental Ecuador. It is
a UNESCO World Heritage site:
wildlife is its most notable feature.
Lake
Baikal-Lake
Baikal is in southern Siberia
in Russia, located between Irkutsk
Oblast to the northwest and the
Buryat Republic to the southeast,
near the city of Irkutsk
Northern
Red Sea-The
Red Sea is a salt water inlet
of the Indian Ocean between Africa
and Asia. The connection to the
ocean is in the south through
the Bab el Mandeb sound and the
Gulf of Aden. In the north are
the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf
of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez
(leading to the Suez Canal). The
Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion.
