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A CORAL REEF WILDERNESS REVEALED PHOENIX ISLANDS.
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- Author(s): Stone, Gregory S.
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National Geographic. Feb2004, Vol. 205 Issue 2, p48-65. 18p. 11 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
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The article focuses on the marine life of Phoenix Islands. A group of marine biologists have motor-sailed five days out from the Fiji Islands to reach the Phoenix archipelago, which consists of eight small islands. The islands cover 25,000 square miles of the Pacific, about one-fifth the area of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In about 1,000 dives at 60 sites, the biologists had discovered six new species of coral and fish, identified 130 species of coral, 518 species of fish, and more than 250 species of invertebrates.
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