7 Facts you never knew about the Coral Sea Islands
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Channel: Sebastian ioan · 2018 · Education
In this video you can find seven little known facts about the Coral Sea Islands. Keep watching and subscribe, as more Australian territories will follow! You can now support this channel via Patreon, by accessing the link bellow. Thank you! https://www.patreon.com/7facts Learn, Share, Subscribe US States & Territories https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRT2EjuHJUt4-YZ59SZNc8ch 206 Countries in One Series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRR54b-LlPPw6YcUFiBEEP6G Social Media: https://twitter.com/Sebastian2Go https://www.facebook.com/official7facts ------------------------------------------------ More information about the video content bellow: 1. 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. The only inhabited island is Willis Island. The territory covers 780,000 km2, most of which is ocean, extending east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef. 2. Willis Island is the only permanently inhabited island in the Coral Sea Islands Territory. The Willis Island weather monitoring station was established in 1921 and equipped with a radio transmitter in order to provide a cyclone early warning service for Queensland. There are usually four weather observers. 3. In 2004, the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands was declared as a sovereign state as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists based in Australia in response to the Australian government's refusal to recognise same-sex marriages. The Kingdom was dissolved on 17 November 2017 following the decision made by the Australian people to legalize gay marriage. 4. Australia's Coral Sea is one of the last places on Earth where ocean giants—sharks, tunas, marlin—still abound. Yet less than 1 percent of the Coral Sea is permanently protected from fishing, oil and gas exploration and seabed mining. 5. The Great Barrier Reef, a part of the Coral Sea just off of Australia’s northeastern Queensland coast, is the world’s largest coral reef. The reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world, can be seen from space and is larger than the Great Wall of China. 6. There are about 30 separate reefs and atolls, twelve being wholly submerged or drying only during low tide, and 18 others with a total of about 51 islets and cays (18 alone on the atoll Lihou Reef), some of which are vegetated. 7. The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The battle is historically significant as the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. More Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Island http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2011/08/19/australias-coral-sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea Music: Andreas - Departure https://facebook.com/andreasmusicno https://twitter.com/andreasmusicno https://soundcloud.com/andreas_music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIfpJV9BVtRxEDOlP8nM15w https://www.instagram.com/andreas_music_/ Images: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/923988 By User:Kahnx at en.wiki - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10347167 By Ludovic Bertron from New York City, Usa - https://www.flickr.com/photos/23912576@N05/2942525739, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14831997 https://pixnio.com/nature-landscapes/underwater/underwater-photo-of-coral-reef https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4042/4251357083_ca9f26d68d_b.jpg By I, Aotearoa, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2268069 https://www.goodfreephotos.com/historical-battles/world-war-ii/lexington-abandoned-and-on-fire-during-battle-of-coral-sea-world-war-ii.jpg.php Intro Creator: Pushed to Insanity http://pushedtoinsanity.com/portfolio-item/free-2d-outro-template-11/