The Great Barrier Reef is formed of more than 2600 individual reefs and 300 coral cays and islands. It spreads for 2200km along Queensland's east coast and covers about 344000 square kilometres of marine habitat from Cape York in the north to Bundaberg in the south. It is the largest and most diverse coral reef system in the world - a massive wilderness of islands, sandbanks and reefs.

Just 32 miles off the Discovery Coast lies a string of coral cays and reefs called Capricornia.
It comprises of 22 reefs, 13 of them with islands, which form the Capricornia/Bunker Group.

How does a Coral Reef grow • Description of Reefs and Islands • Aquatic Life • Back to the Bunker Group