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Australia-Uk-Cruise-Queen Victoria

The Queen Victoria, the most expensive and grandest ocean liner ever built, arrives on February 23, 2008 in Sydney's Harbour. The Cunard cruise liner who has 1, 000 crew members and weighs 90, 000 tons with a length of 293.5 m, left New York on january 13, on her maiden world voyage to berth at Sydney's Harbour across from the Sydney Opera House untill 24 February 2008. AFP PHOTO / ANOEK DE GROOT / AFP PHOTO / ANOEK DE GROOT

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Australia-Conservation-Environment-Reef

This photo shows an aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park encompasses about 99 percent of the World Heritage-listed natural wonder, with the additional one percent outside the marine park but within the heritage-listed area -- about 3, 600 square kilometres (1, 390 square miles) -- being managed by the Queensland state government and includes most islands and ports, as well as lakes and other waterways. AFP PHOTO / SARAH LAI / AFP PHOTO / Sarah Lai

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Us-Satellite Image-Great Barier Reef

This image taken from NASA's Earth Obeservatory Internet site shows the Great Barrier Reef, that extends for 1, 242 miles (2, 000 km) along the northeastern coast of Australia. It is not a single reef, but a vast maze of reefs, passages, and coral cays (islands that are part of the reef). This true-color image was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) instrument on August 26, 2000, and shows part of the southern portion of the reef adjacent to the central Queensland coast. The width of the MISR swath is approximately 236 miles (380 kilometers), with the reef clearly visible up to approximately 124 miles (200 kilometers) from the coast. The large island off the most northerly part of the coast visible in this image is Whitsunday Island, with smaller islands and reefs extending southeast, parallel to the coast. AFP PHOTO/ NASA / AFP PHOTO / NASA / NASA

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