Pandora Reef

Pandora Reef is a low-lying island in addition to being an adjacent fringing reef. It is in Halifax Bay in Queensland, Australia. It is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the Greater Palm group.[2] The name Pandora Reef dates back to at least 1889.[3]

Pandora Reef

Geography
Coordinates	18.81248°S 146.43312°E / -18.81248; 146.43312[1]
Administration
Australia
State	Queensland

The surrounding waters are in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in the Coral Sea. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority designation is 18-051.[4] Zoned as a Marine National Park, fishing is not permitted, although diving and photography are allowed.

Aerial photos and maps

• Google (8 January 2011). "Pandora Reef, the island, and Pandora Reef, the reef" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
• Google (8 January 2011). "satellite view of Pandora Reef" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 8 January 2011.

See also

• Halifax Bay Wetlands National Park
• Fly Island

References

1. "Place names search, Geoscience Australia, QLD26001 (Place name = "Pandora Reef", click search, click QLD26001)". Australian Government, Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
2. "Launch Party Missing,". Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909-1954). Qld.: National Library of Australia. 5 August 1925. p. 5. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
3. Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept (1889). Australia directory, Volume 2. p. 300. Retrieved 3 October 2011. Pandora reef, 5 1/2 miles West of Fly islet, is a dangerous coral reef, nearly three-quarters of a mile long east and west, and a quarter of a mile broad. On its eastern end is situated a crescent-shaped coral grit bank, 2 feet above high water; on the western point is a smaller bank, about one foot above high water.
4. "Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), Detailed maps, MPZ8 - Townsville". Australian Government, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. 24 April 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2011.

Bibliography

• "SpringerLink - Coral Reefs, Volume 26, Number 4. Decadal changes in turbid-water coral communities at Pandora Reef: loss of resilience or too soon to tell? Abstract". Springer, Part of Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved 3 October 2011. Coral communities were monitored at Pandora Reef, nearshore Great Barrier Reef from 1981 to 2005 using photography and videography.