The Coral Sea Islands Territory is an external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, north-east of Queensland, Australia. The only inhabited island is Willis Island. The territory covers 780,000 km2 (301,160 sq mi), most of which is ocean, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef and includes Heralds Beacon Island, Osprey Reef, the Willis Group and fifteen other reef/island groups. Cato Island is the highest point in the Territory.[1]
The CoralSeaIslands Territory is an external territory of Australia which comprises a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs...
its islands and cays belong to Queensland, most reefs and islets east of it are part of the CoralSeaIslands Territory. In addition, some islands west...
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the CoralSeaIslands (also known as the Gay Kingdom of the CoralSea) was a putative micronation established as a symbolic...
a coral reef which has grown to cover a far larger area under the sea. The term low island can be used to distinguish such islands from high islands, which...
Solomon Islands. The Philippine islands, which lie at its apex, make up 300,000 square kilometers (120,000 sq mi) of it. The part of the Coral Triangle's...
Willis Island is the only permanently inhabited island in the CoralSeaIslands Territory, an external territory of Australia, located beyond the Great...
plains had become continental islands. As sea level rise continued, water topped most of the continental islands. The corals could then overgrow the hills...
few islands support shrubs and low forests. The following plant taxa occur on the CoralSeaIslands: Telford, I. R. H. (1993). "CoralSeaIslands Territory"...
(with concentrations in the Caroline Islands, the CoralSeaIslands, the Marshall Islands, the Tuamotu Islands, Kiribati, Tokelau, and Tuvalu) and the...
etc.). The laws of the Australian Capital Territory apply to the CoralSeaIslands Territory. It is an offence in New South Wales to have sexual intercourse...
biodiversity importance in the Coral Triangle include: (1) the northern tip of Sulawesi, (2) Ambon Island, (3) Kai Islands (also Kei Islands), (4) Raja Ampat Archipelago...
The CoralIsland: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1857) is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of juvenile fiction...
The Battle of the CoralSea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United...
is a list of the bird species recorded on the CoralSeaIslands. The avifauna of the CoralSeaIslands include a total of 45 species. This list's taxonomic...
the island of New Guinea), Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. It comprises over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals around the four main islands of...
of lighthouses in CoralSeaIslands. List of lighthouses in Australia Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Australia: CoralSeaIslands Territory". The Lighthouse...
fringing reefs of about 572 islands, most of these islands have a healthy biodiversity. Eastern Coast There is a coral reef near the sea between Chandrabhaga...
Fire corals (Millepora) are a genus of colonial marine organisms that exhibit physical characteristics similar to that of coral. The name coral is somewhat...
island Caquorobert, Guernsey Clipperton Island, a Pacific island of France CoralSeaIslands off the northeastern coast of Australia De Long Islands in...
The Chesterfield Islands (îles Chesterfield in French) are a French archipelago of New Caledonia located in the CoralSea, 550 km (300 nmi) northwest of...
islands in Indonesia to see how their coral cover was. One of the places was the Melinjo Islands and the other was the Saktu Islands. On Saktu Island...
Cato Reef, a part of Cato Bank, is a coral reef in the CoralSea, off the central coast of Queensland, Australia. Cato Bank measures approximately 21...
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and towards the French Polynesian Islands; and due east towards South America affecting geochemistry of corals in tropical...
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