Canberra, Australia — A shark bit off a British tourist's foot and mauled another British tourist's leg on Tuesday as the men snorkeled on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, officials said.

Welcome to the 3 epic days up in the Whitsunday Islands. We DID so many epic things over this time from exploring Whitehaven Beach to flying over the Great Barrier Reef and seeing Heart Reef.

"The asset of our industry is the Great Barrier Reef, and the Whitsunday Islands," he said. "There's a culture of caring for the reef, caring for the islands that goes right through the industry ...

The best way to get around the Great Barrier Reef is by car ... to spend your vacation on one of the reef's more remote areas, like the Whitsunday Islands or Lizard Island, then catching a boat ...

In the Whitsunday Islands, Cyclone Debbie in 2017 caused ... decline of inshore coral reef fish assemblages in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Global Change Biology (2024).

Much of Fiona Merida's work as manager of the Great Barrier Reef Marine ... how resilient the reef is and how it can bounce back," he said. A section of a Whitsunday reef photographed post Cyclone ...

Similarly, Cyclone Debbie in 2017 caused considerable damage to the Whitsunday Islands’ reefs ... program now covers eight key regions across the Great Barrier Reef, with 21 additional inshore islands ...

To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef ... Certainly, it is vast—a conglomeration of some 3,000 reefs and 600 islands stretching more than 1,250 miles along ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Whitsunday. Followed categories will be added to My News. Rumours ran rampant online on Monday that Airlie Beach’s Great Barrier Reef Festival had been ...

The listing at the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef comes with plans for a luxury villa home or subdivision, and is under offer. The villa has been designed by Chris ...