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Wonders of Coral Sea Islands Territory
  Highlights
Coral Sea Islands Territory is large sea area with scattered small islands, a possession of Australia.
Just a few of these islands have vegetation, all islands are very low. Only Willis island is inhabited by the staff of weather monitoring station.
iological research here is far from being complete. Here have been found several interesting species of sea animals which are not known outside this area. Recent dates of these discoveries mean that more unknown species of sea animals here are waiting for their discoverers.
An endemic fish – Tiger Blenny (Ecsenius tigris) is met in several atolls in this territory, it is becoming fairly popular aquarium fish, up to 5 cm long. 8 – 12 cm long fish Pseudocoris aequalis thus far has been found only in Holmes Reef, first described in 2008.
Small (1.3 – 1.7 mm) pseudoscorpion Nannochelifer paralius was discovered in the beach of Turtle Islet (Lihou Reef) and scientifically described in 1984.
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Top wonder of Coral Sea Islands Territory
Geological wonders
Elizabeth Reef
The southernmost atoll in the world, 8.2 by 5.5 km large, with a well-formed ring of dry land and an inner lagoon. Only in Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs is found Sally’s Eviota (Eviota readerae), described in 2004. This is a very small (up to 1.8 cm) fish.
