Section 03 of 05
The Lagoon
A barrier reef and the water it encloses.
Four entries. Every entry is one thing that exists only here, and the reason it does.
- 03.1
The barrier reef
Some 1,500 kilometres of reef enclosing one of the largest lagoons on earth, listed by UNESCO in 2008.
03.2The double barrier
Two reef lines offshore of the north-west coast, an arrangement with very few parallels anywhere.
03.3Lagoon floor
Seagrass, sand and patch reef, and why the enclosed water behaves differently from the ocean outside it.
03.4Mangrove at Voh
The heart-shaped clearing in the mangrove near Voh, formed by salinity and drainage rather than by anyone's hand.