Agincourt Reefs
Ribbon reef on the continental shelf edge, where the seafloor drops beyond five hundred meters just past the coral wall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Agincourt Reef, out past Port Douglas near Cairns, follows the floating platform Quicksilver built with nothing beneath it but open ocean, on a strip of coral sitting right at the edge of the continental shelf. It traces why the water here runs so clear, what that clarity has built beneath the surface, and how this one reef connects to the much larger system first charted in detail by Matthew Flinders. A good listening spot is right at the platform railing, facing the open water.
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